Internet Access, Campaign Spending, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Peruvian Municipal Elections Bruno Belevan
Since 2007, Peru has experienced an exponential and unequal increase in internet infrastructure and connectivity across districts. My research explores the effect of an increase in internet access on the level of competition in municipal elections. I constructed a novel panel data set with electoral, mobile internet infrastructure, and census data from 2010 to 2018. […]
Nordic Nation Named The Happiest In The World For 2022
For a fifth consecutive year, Finland has been named the world’s happiest country, according to the World Happiness Report, co-authored by Vancouver School of Economics Professor Emeritus John Helliwell. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the world saw an increase in three measures of benevolence – helping strangers, volunteering, and donations – in 2021. “This surge of […]