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Economic Well-Being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci - 2014

The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Social Capital, Trust and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth

Hamilton, Kirk - 2016

We combine theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given what we have learned in the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust could be...

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Size Really Doesn't Matter : In Search of a National Scale Effect

Rose, Andrew - 2009

I search for a %u201Cscale%u201D effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical techniques, I search for an impact of size on the level...

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International Evidence on Well-Being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for quot;unpleasantquot; or quot;undesirablequot;, which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country...

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Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2014

This paper first reviews existing studies of the links between good governance and subjective well-being. It then brings together the largest available sets of national-level measures of the quality of governance to assess the extent to which they contribute to explaining the levels and changes...

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016

characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …

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Learning and Earning : An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions

Riehl, Evan - 2016

This paper explores the implications of measuring college productivity in two different dimensions: earning and learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security records to students' performance on a national college...

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Gvcs and Trade Elasticities with Multistage Production

Johnson, Robert C. - 2019

We build a quantitative model of trade with multistage manufacturing value chains, which features iceberg trade costs and technology differences across both goods and production stages. We estimate technology and trade costs via the simulated method of moments, matching bilateral shipments of...

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Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added : Testing and Estimation

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Pathak, Parag A.; … - 2021

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools after regression-adjusting for students’ demographic characteristics and previous scores. This paper tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether VAM estimates accurately predict the achievement...

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