Search Results - subject:"1970-1991"

The struggle to save the Soviet economy : Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR

Miller, Chris - 2016

Asian pivot: the roots of Soviet economic reform -- Take off or leap forward?: Soviet assessments of China after Mao -- Gorbachev's gamble: interest group politics and perestroika -- Soviet industry, Sichuan style: Gorbachev's enterprise reforms -- A Soviet Shenzhen?: copying China's special...

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The long twentieth century : money, power and the origins of our times

Arrighi, Giovanni - 2010 - New and updated ed.

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Television and divorce : evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Chong, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2009

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo - the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country - across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...

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Soap operas and fertility : evidence from Brazil

La Ferrara, Eliana (contributor); Chong, Alberto (contributor) - 2008

. Using Census data for the period 1970-1991, we find that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have …) in Brazil. Us- ing Census data for the period 1970-1991 we find that, after controlling for time varying covariates and … using aggregate data at the Minimal Comparable Area (AMC) level for the Census years 1970-1991. [Insert Table 2] The …