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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2008
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U ….S. multinational companies over the period 1982--2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign … foreign and domestic locations. Used abroad, it generates profits for foreign subsidiaries with no foreign direct investment …
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Will the U.S. Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Post-docs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign STEM PhDs
Ganguli, Ina - 2018
54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we estimate the career preferences of foreign and U.S. STEM students for … more standard Likert measures of preferences for different careers. We find that foreign students are generally more … to choose between two postdoc job offers, where one offer is in the U.S. and one is abroad. We find that foreign students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452883
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Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940
Dahis, Ricardo - 2019
This paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880 - 1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races. We provide a rich set of descriptive evidence on the lives of black men "passing" for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480408
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Rugged Entrepreneurs : The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation
Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Macciocchi, Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496160
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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ideology. We measure cultural distance between two groups as the ability to infer an individual's group based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452950
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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Ethnic Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment : Evidence from Proposition 187
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Political discourse has often stoked racial and ethnic divisions, raising the possibility that individuals' self-reported racial and ethnic identities may change in response to an increasingly hostile environment. We shed light on this question by measuring the impacts of local support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056143
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482703
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457425
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond - 2012
religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460563