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Henn, Soeren J.; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Despite the past centuries' economic setbacks and challenges, are there reasons for optimism about Africa's economic prospects? We provide a conceptual framework and empirical evidence that show how the nature of African society has led to three sets of unrecognized "latent assets." First,...

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The Cultural Divide

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

This paper conducts a systematic quantitative study of cultural convergence and divergence in the United States over time. Using the General Social Survey (1972-2016), we assess whether cultural values have grown more or less heterogeneous, both overall and between groups. Groups are defined...

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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

Alesina, Alberto - 2017

persistent heterogeneity does not necessarily spell doom for further political integration, however. Compared to observed … members is a similar order of magnitude. The main stumbling block on the road to further political integration is not …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan

Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008

integration …

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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment

Ghironi, Fabio - 2007

Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …

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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US

Lewis, Karen K. - 2006

capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …

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Bond Markets as Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2006

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …

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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice

Baker, Laurence C. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...

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