Browsing BI Open by Author "Galle, Simon"

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    • Elections and Selfishness 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Elections affect the division of resources in society and are occasions for political elites to make appeals rooted in voters' self-interest. Hence, elections may erode altruistic norms and cause people to behave more ...

    • Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ethnicity has been shown to shape political, social, and economic behavior in Africa, but the underlying mechanisms remain contested. We utilize lab experiments to isolate one mechanism—an individual's bias in favor of ...

    • Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade 

      Galle, Simon; Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Yi, Moises (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We develop a multi-sector gravity model with heterogeneous workers to quantify the aggregate and group-level welfare effects of trade. The model generalizes the specific-factors intuition to a setting with labour reallocation, ...

    • The Unequal Effects of Trade and Automation across Local Labor Markets 

      Galle, Simon; Lorentzen, Linnea (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Others, 2024)
      We quantify the joint impact of the China shock and automation of labor, across US commuting zones (CZs) in the period 2000–2007. To this end, we employ a multi-sector gravity model of trade with Roy-Fréchet worker ...