Valentino Larcinese

TL;DR: This article examined the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and the political affiliation of the incumbent president, focusing on unemployment, inflation, the federal budget and the trade deficit.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out an empirical investigation on the impact of presidents during the period 1982-2000 and found that the distribution of federal outlays to the States is affected by presidential politics.

TL;DR: This paper carried out an empirical investigation on the impact of presidents during the period 1982-2000 and found that federal budget allocation is affected by presidential politics and that states that heavily supported the incumbent president in past presidential elections tend to receive more funds, while marginal and swing states are not rewarded.

TL;DR: The authors found that the provision of feedback has a positive effect on students' subsequent test scores: the mean impact corresponds to 13% of a standard deviation in test scores and the impact of feedback is stronger for more able students and for students who had less information to start with about the academic environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of class size on students' test scores were investigated using administrative records from a UK university and they found that at the average class size, the effect size is negative and significant only for the smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero in intermediate class sizes.