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On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare : New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2019
Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
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Crypto Trading and Bitcoin Prices : Evidence from a New Database of Retail Adoption
Auer, Raphael; Cornelli, Giulio; Doerr, Sebastian; … - 2023
. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail …
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State Investment in Higher Education : Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael - 2021
Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have...
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The Effects of Financial Aid on Graduation and Labor Market Outcomes : New Evidence from Matched Education-Labor Data
Rattini, Veronica - 2022
Financial aid decreases the cost of acquiring additional education. By using Italian administrative and survey data on financial aid recipients and exploiting sharp discontinuities in the amount of aid received, this paper identifies the causal effect of aid generosity on college performance and...
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Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Reforms : A Narrative Database for Advance Economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022
This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 …
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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
Roesel, Felix - 2022
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all … German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand …
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Famdata : Database for Family Business Companies in Germany Covering Company Key Figures and Survey Data
Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023
FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches …,000 companies. In addition to the “hard” business data like turnover and number of employees, the database also includes “soft …
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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database
Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023
This article introduces a novel database that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions. It combines … and the rule of law, political rights, civil rights, and basic human rights. The database covers 175 countries over the …
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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries
Altmejd, Adam - 2020
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...
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Persecution and Escape : Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
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