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Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate

Harm Adema, Joop Age; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate …. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines … internet rollout from 2008 to 2018. We show that an increase in mobile internet access increases the desire and plans to …

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Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru

Malamud, Ofer - 2019

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …

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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe

Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico; Tesei, Andrea - 2022

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …

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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...

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Public Finances Solvency in the Euro Area : True or False?

Afonso, António; Coelho, Jose Carlos - 2022

We assess public finances solvency for Euro Area countries using quarterly data between 1999Q1 and 2020Q4. Through a country-by-country analysis, the answer to the title question is true. For most countries, (i) the primary budget balance reacts positively to the lagged public debt ratio and...

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Working from Home in European Countries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022

We use data from the EU Labour Force Survey for 8 countries and document the levels of working from home in the sample countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic started. We show that there are significant...

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Rallying Around the EU Flag : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Attitudes Toward European Integration

Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Farvaque, Étienne; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2022

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...

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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Flows : Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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Quantifying the Extensive Margin(s) of Trade : The Case of Uneven European Integration

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022

We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific policy effects not properly identified in previous...

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