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Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration

Pérez, Santiago - 2019

I study the selection and economic outcomes of Italians in Argentina and the US, the two largest destinations during … the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is … better economic outcomes in Argentina, and this advantage was unlikely to be due to selection. Migration path dependence can …

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What If Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean? A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States

Bordo, Michael D. - 1998

the presence of frequent wars, ever-tightening access to foreign capital, and an inadequate tax base, Argentina's use of …

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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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Gender Gaps at the Academies

Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...

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What Did UWE Do for Economics?

Avilova, Tatyana; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment …

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