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The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2000

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of...

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Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments

Brock, William A. - 2003

This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy analysis. We argue that policy evaluation should be conducted on the basis of two factors: the policymaker's preferences, and the conditional distribution of the outcomes of interest given a policy and available information. From this...

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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …

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Theory and Measurement : Emergence, Consolidation and Erosion of a Consensus

Biddle, Jeff E. - 2016

We identify three separate stages in the post-World War II history of applied microeconomic research: A generally non …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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The Economic Impact of Universities : Evidence from Across the Globe

Valero, Anna - 2016

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the...

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Civil War

Blattman, Christopher - 2009

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of research into the causes and consequences of civil wars, belatedly bringing the topic into the economics mainstream. This article critically reviews this interdisciplinary...

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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Deaton, Angus - 2008

, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …

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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific …

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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

Huberman, Michael - 2009

labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

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