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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
greatly reduces bias in the most influential and precise estimates: conservatively accounting for capital taxes paid by the …
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Simple rules for climate policy and integrated assessment
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2018
discount rates than private agents. The economics depends on the costs and rates of technical progress in production of fossil … of atmospheric carbon and the relatively fast temperature response, and we allow for positive feedbacks. The politics …
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What can economists learn from happiness research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income …, unemployment and inflation affect happiness as well as how institutional factors, in particular the type of democracy and the …
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Does party competition affect political activism?
Hager, Anselm; Hermle, Johannes; Hensel, Lukas; Roth, … - 2020
campaigns. We present a framework that incorporates supporters' instrumental and expressive motives and illustrates that party …
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Local global watchdogs : trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
NGO campaigns against firms with value chains involving production in developing and emerging economies are a salient … feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts … obtained from recently available data containing 102 532 campaigns by 4 343 NGOs targeting 11 429 firms from 145 countries …
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Financing democracy
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2002
Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that democracies should use a mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding for parties can be reduced without expecting undesirable effects...
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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Jesus speaks Korean : christianity and literacy in colonial Korea
Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We find that Jews live...
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