Social medical insurance schemes are crucial for realizing universal health coverage and health equity. The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how reimbursement for injury-induced medical expenses is addressed in Chinese legislative documents relevant to social medical insurance. We retrieved legislative documents from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure and the Lawyee dat...

We provide a theory of legislative bargaining in a setting where the institution-free model of social choice theory yields no equilibrium. We model negotiations over a set of discrete bills (i.e. bills that can only be approved or dismissed) as a repeated game where a status quo is amended until an agreement is reached. Our goal is to understand when logrolling or vote trading agreements occur....

This paper addresses the issue of the endogenous choice and persistence of legislative malapportionment and analyzes its economic consequences. Legislative malapportionment denotes a wide discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts. We first document that countries with higher lower chamber malapportionment have lower GDP per capita...

I analyze a model of interest group influence on legislative voting through information transmission. The model shows how interest groups may craft different messages to target different winning coalitions in order to influence the outcome. If access to legislators is costly then interest groups prefer to coordinate with allied legislators by providing them with information that helps them to p...

In this paper we will present a method for mining information within legal texts, in particular in regards to corpora of statutes. Text mining, or more in general Information Extraction, can provide valuable help to people involved in research about the linguistic structure of statutes, and, as a side effect can be the seed for a new generation of applications for validation and conversion in t...