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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations : Theory and Evidence
Alesina, Alberto - 2017
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidations based upon government spending cuts, transfers cuts and tax hikes. We extend a narrative dataset of fiscal consolidations, with details on over 3500 measures for 16 OECD countries. We show that government spending cuts and cuts in...
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Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010
best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has …
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Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Chang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Learn home visiting program in China, China REACH. It collects more detailed information than is available on the …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …
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The Legal Origins of Financial Development : Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Ma, Chicheng; Xu, Yuchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the legal origins view of financial development. During this period, two regime changes altered the degree to which the British common and French civil law traditions held jurisdiction over the...
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Networks, Shocks, and Systemic Risk
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
This chapter develops a unified framework for the study of how network interactions can function as a mechanism for propagation and amplification of microeconomic shocks. The framework nests various classes of games over networks, models of macroeconomic risk originating from microeconomic...
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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
ⓡ, Barry Eichengreen - 2020
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable...
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Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises : The Roles of Trust and Trade Credit
Levine, Ross - 2016
Are firms more resilient to systemic banking crises in economies with higher levels of social trust? Using firm-level data in 34 countries from 1990 through 2011, we find that liquidity-dependent firms in high-trust countries obtain more trade credit and suffer smaller drops in profits and...
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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting : Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values
Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context....
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