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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001
formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that … that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995
,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
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International Inflation Spillovers Through Input Linkages
Auer, Raphael A. - 2017
We document that observed international input-output linkages contribute substantially to synchronizing producer price inflation (PPI) across countries. Using a multi-country, industry-level dataset that combines information on PPI and exchange rates with international and domestic input-output...
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Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution
Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization … and unprecedented codification of technical knowledge in Meiji Japan as a natural experiment, we show that this pattern … appeared in Japan only after the Japanese government codified as much technical knowledge as what was available in Germany in …
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A. - 2010
This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462182
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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462417
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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Diversity and Crowd-out : A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2007
Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of "warm glow" giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may...
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Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
In the past two elections, richer people were more likely to vote Republican while richer states were more likely to vote Democratic. This switch is an aggregation reversal, where an individual relationship, like income and Republicanism, is reversed at some level of aggregation. Aggregation...
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