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Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital
A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Age data frequently display excess frequencies at attractive numbers, such as multiples of five. We use this "age heaping" to measure cognitive ability in quantitative reasoning, or "numeracy". We construct a database of age heaping estimates with exceptional geographic and temporal coverage,...
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Leaving Home and Living Alone: An Historical Perspective
Wall, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper provides a historical and geographical perspective on the composition of households in present-day Europe. Many more people today live on their own than was the case in pre-industrial England, but there are some surprising continuities in household composition. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497727
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Does Elastic Retract? The Effect of Recession on Women's Labour Force Participation
Joshi, Heather; Owen, Susan J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985
the pressure of demand remained constant. 'Actual' changes in the labour force have been adjusted for changes in census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281293
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How Long is a Piece of Elastic? The Measurement of Female Activity Rates in British Censuses, 1951-1981
Joshi, Heather; Owen, Susan J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
the post war period is the decennial Census of Population (1951-81). We show in this paper that the inference of a … errors in Census evidence. Finally we adjust the Census information in the light of our activity rates by age group "less … to be available in the future. Since the 1971 Census seems to have been exceptionally extensive in its coverage of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281395
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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
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Civil War, Public Goods and the Social Wealth of Nations
Kanbur, Ravi; Pottebaum, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper establishes and explores the implications of a somewhat surprising empirical finding. Although civil war adversely affects the performance of social indicators in general, poorer countries lose less, in absolute and relative terms, than richer countries. It is argued that the...
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124245
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Civil Wars and International Trade
Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade destruction due to civil wars is very large and persistent and increases with the severity of the conflict. We then test the presence of two effects that trade can have on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124456
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Diamonds are Forever, Wars are Not: Is Conflict Bad for Private Firms?
Guidolin, Massimo; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper studies the relationship between civil war and private investment in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining firms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conflict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader...
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War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003383