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Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? : insights from high-income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay P. - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
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The political scar of epidemics
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
What political legacy is bequeathed by national health crises such as epidemics? We show that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. The effect is specific to the...
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...
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Weapons of choice
Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015
This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...
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Emotions and political unrest
Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013
This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...
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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...
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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From courtrooms to charts : the impact of Kavanaugh's appointment on music consumption
Rossi, Luca; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024
This study examines the impact of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment on U.S. music consumption, specifically exploring changes in streaming patterns on Spotify. With a difference-in-differences approach, we analyze the streaming data of the top 200 songs, revealing a significant...
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2020
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....
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