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Regime spoiler or regime pawn : the military and distributional conflict in non-democracies
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014
I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play a passive role. The autocrat determines the...
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners
Carson, Scott Alan - 2009
stature and insolation was remarkably similar between white soldiers and prisoners, adding to the evidence that there is a …
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The decline in the nutritional status of the U.S. antebellum population at the onset of modern economic growth
A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015
proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is representative of the trend in the physical stature …
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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance : how risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...
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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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Using military build-ups to capture fiscal shocks : a reassessment
Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2014
Ramey (2011a) and others argue that increases in government spending associated with wars and military build-ups constitute a good instrument for measuring the macroeconomic effects of fiscal shocks. We argue that this instrument has two important drawbacks: the composition of government...
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Biological well-being in late 19th century Philippines
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015
soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and 1913. We use truncated regression technique for estimating average … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …
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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015
German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...
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Soft paternalism, merit goods, and normative individualism
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014
Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...
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