Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 14
Cover Image
Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481465
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453647
Cover Image
Reform, recovery, and growth : Latin America and the Middle East
Dornbusch, Rudiger (ed.); Edwards, Sebastian (contributor) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480882
Cover Image
Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples
Hirano, Keisuke - 1998
In many fields researchers wish to consider statistical models that allow for more complex relationships than can be inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different points in time can often provide the richer data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472315
Cover Image
Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009
Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463313
Cover Image
Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2009
There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463801
Cover Image
The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000
Dupont, Brandon - 2008
Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464669
Cover Image
Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?
Cutler, David M. - 2006
While Americans are less healthy than Europeans along some dimensions (like obesity), Americans are significantly less likely to smoke than their European counterparts. This difference emerged in the 1970s and it is biggest among the most educated. The puzzle becomes larger once we account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466545