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Should We Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
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Mining Matters : Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Constraints
De Haas, Ralph - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977161
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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level. Quantitatively, the historical rise in prices (commodity super …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas - 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105134
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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention
Reinhart, Carmen - 2016
A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000216
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola - 2018
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926545
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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Belloc, Marianna - 2016
This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002947
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025
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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar - 2015
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
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