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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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In Their Shoes

Andries, Marianne; Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We explore the mechanics of empathy. In a controlled immersive virtual reality experiment, we show that neutral information on unauthorized immigration magnifies the empathetic response of subjects when they witness the struggles of unauthorized migrants. We conjecture that perceiving others as...

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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application

Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose and initiate the study of privacy elasticity--the responsiveness of economic variables to small changes in the level of privacy given to participants in an economic system. Individuals rarely experience either full privacy or a complete lack of privacy; we propose to use differential...

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Privacy Elasticity : A (Hopefully) Useful New Concept

Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Privacy considerations and their effects on behavior are becoming increasingly important. Yet the extremes of full and no privacy are rarely an option. How much does behavior change with small changes in privacy? Dekel et al. (2023) introduce the concept of privacy elasticity, the responsiveness...

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The Case for Researching Applied Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Bowen, Claire McKay; Snoke, Joshua; Williams, Aaron R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Research on privacy enhancing approaches for sharing data has grown significantly over the past two decades. This increased interest has led to extensive theoretical and methodological research, but the number of practical applications of privacy enhancing technologies has lagged far behind....

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Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms : Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society

Godoy, Ricardo A.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure,...

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The Bolivian Hyperinflation and Stabilization

Sachs, Jeffrey - 1986

of macroeconomic policymaking in Bolivia since the 1952 Revolution. Great stress is put on the weakness of fiscal … characteristics of Bolivia's international trade, focusing both on structural features (e.g., the heavy dependence on a small number … describes the novel arrangements that Bolivia has negotiated in order to escape the severe overhang of external debt. In the …

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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017

Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2019

After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained … and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s led to a debt crisis that began in 1977. From 1977 to 1986, Bolivia lost … almost all the gains in GDP per capita that it had achieved since 1960. In 1986, Bolivia started to grow again, interrupted …

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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various fields and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...

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Do Exchange Auctions Work? An Examination of the Bolivian Experience

Dominguez, Kathryn M. - 1991

introduction of its auction, the Bolsin, not only did the parallel market premium for dollars all but disappear in Bolivia, but the …

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