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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth : Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021

This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure

Malley, James R.; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …

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The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning : Work-Related Training and Social Capital

Ruhose, Jens - 2019

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...

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A Matter of Trust? Political Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...

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Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties

Castriota, Stefano; Rondinella, Sandro; Tonin, Mirco - 2022

We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of whether social capital matters for behaviour in extreme...

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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries

Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...

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The Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital

Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee...

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Response to Guinnane and Hoffman : Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023

Guinnane and Hoffman (subsequently GH) comment on two of our papers: Voigtländer and Voth: “Persecution Perpetuated” (2012, subsequently PP) and Satyanath, Voigtländer and Voth: Bowling for Fascism (2017, subsequently BF). They allege that our econometric results are fragile and depend on...

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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party : A Reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....

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