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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on eight wellbeing measures. These are four positive affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment,...

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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...

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Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming production across all sectors of the economy, with the potential to both complement and substitute for traditional labor inputs. Healthcare is no exception. Dozens of recent academic studies demonstrate that AI can contribute to the healthcare value...

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The Value of Ratings : Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets

Bernstein, Asaf; Frydman, Carola; Hilt, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effects of the first-ever ratings for corporate securities. In 1909, John Moody published a book that partitioned the majority of listed railroad bonds into letter-graded ratings based on his assessments of their credit risk. These ratings had no regulatory implications and were...

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School Accountability, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency

Eren, Ozkan; Figlio, David N.; Mocan, Naci; Ozturk, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the impact of school accountability on adult crime and economic self-sufficiency. We employ a unique source of linked administrative data from a Southern state and exploit exogenous variation generated by the state's accountability regime. Our findings indicate that a...

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Divestment and Engagement : The Effect of Green Investors on Corporate Carbon Emissions

Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies whether green investors can influence corporate greenhouse gas emissions through capital markets, either by divesting their stock and limiting polluters' access to capital, or holding polluters' stock and engaging with management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying...

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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture

Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021

--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …

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Spatial Structural Change

Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...

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American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change

Libecap, Gary D.; Dinar, Ariel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper highlights the role of agriculture in the American economy and society over time and points to farmer …

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Regulierung der Blockchains : hoheitliche Steuerung der Netzwerke im Zahlungskontext

Hofert, Eduard - 2018

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