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Years of Life Lost to Revolution and War in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … life during the post-revolution period until the end of war with Iraq in 1988. The average annual years of life lost is … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic …

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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap

Gutmann, Jerg - 2020

evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …

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Global Investors, the Dollar, and U.S. Credit Conditions

Niepmann, Friederike - 2019

This paper documents that an appreciation of the U.S. dollar is associated with a reduction in the supply of commercial and industrial loans by U.S. banks. An increase in the broad dollar index by 2.5 points (one standard deviation) reduces U.S. banks’ corporate loan originations by 10...

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Did Trump's Trade War Impact the 2018 Election?

Blanchard, Emily; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2021

health care as an election issue. A counterfactual calculation suggests that the trade war (respectively, health care) can …

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Institutions and Offshoring Decision

Nicolini, Marcella - 2021

Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...

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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations

Comertpay, Rana - 2019

This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...

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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2019

Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to...

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Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies

Haaland, Ingar - 2019

We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats...

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...

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