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Lord, how I want to be in that number! : on the blessing of UNESCO world heritage listing
Bertacchini, Enrico; Revelli, Federico; Zotti, Roberto - 2023
This paper studies the impact of UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) inscription on income and property values in the … of income. Possible underlying mechanisms are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013555722
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Measuring the economic risk of COVID-19
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020
We measure the economic risk of COVID-19 at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the current prevalence of confirmed cases, we use data from 2014-2018 and a conceptual disaster risk model to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231556
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312227
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Social distancing and the economic impact of COVID-19 in the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020
This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We find that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291873
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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand
Noy, Ilan; Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Patel, Pooja - 2019
of the disaster on income, expenditure, assets, debt and savings levels, directly, and indirectly on spillover households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022180
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Measuring the economic risk of epidemics
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019
We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156716
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Gender differences in professional career dynamics : new evidence from a global law firm
Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - 2020
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The sample includes countries at different stages of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211114
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
vehicle of analysis is a promotion-signaling model in which wages are realistically determined by market forces. We find that … overconfident workers exert more effort to be promoted, and even though they have lower expected ability conditional on promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249676
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Competition and career advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319662
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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