Search Results - subject:"gold rush"

Gold rush vs. war : Keynes on reviving animal spirits in times of crisis

Bee, Michele; Fèvre, Raphaël - In: Cambridge journal of economics 48 (2024) 2, pp. 213-234

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A Golden Opportunity: The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture

Stuetzer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2021

-natural experiment – the gold rush in the second part of the 19th century. We argue that the presence of gold attracted individuals with … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold …

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New(spaper) evidence of a reduction in suicide mentions during the 19th century US gold rush

Kronenberg, Christoph - In: Health Economics 30 (2021) 10, pp. 2582-2594

I analyze the relationship between state‐level economic shocks and suicides using gold mined in the United States (US) between 1840 and 1860 as a large unexpected economic shock. Mined gold was an unexpected and large economic shock of up to 3.5% of GDP. This provides as good as random...

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A golden opportunity: the gold rush, entrepreneurship and culture

Stützer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2021

-natural experiment - the gold rush in the second part of the 19th century. We argue that the presence of gold attracted individuals with … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705583

New(spaper) Evidence of a Reduction in Suicide Mentions during the 19th‐century US Gold Rush

Kronenberg, Christoph - 2020

I analyze the relationship between state‐level economic shocks and suicides using historical US gold discoveries (1840‐1860) as a large unexpected economic shock. Gold discoveries were an unexpected and large economic shock of up to 3.5% of GDP. They provide as good as random variation to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000558

South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008-13

Botchwey, Gabriel; Crawford, Gordon; Loubere, Nicholas; … - 2018

This paper examines irregular South-South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it has played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry from the mid-2000s of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the small-scale gold mining sector. They...