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Did Vietnam veterans get sicker in the 1990s? : the complicated effects of military service on self-reported health
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H.; Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2010
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...
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Frontier knowledge and scientific production : evidence from the collapse of international science
Iaria, Alessandro; Schwarz, Carlo; Waldinger, Fabian - 2017
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War and science in Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023
We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...
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Alert citizenry as an antidote to war
Corneo, Giacomo - 2023
What can be done to reduce the likelihood of future wars? While states’ decisions that bear on war are ultimately made by their political leaders, strengthening ordinary citizens’ control of those leaders is vital to reduce the risk of future wars. This thesis can be broken down into two...
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Inflation expectations in the wake of the war in Ukraine
Afunts, Geghetsik; Cato, Misina; Schmidt, Tobias - 2023
-term inflation expectations of individuals in Germany. We use microdata from the Bundesbank Online Panel - Households (BOP-HH), for …
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Die Phasen einer Wachstumswelle : zur langfristigen wirtschaftl. Entwicklung d. Nachkriegszeit in d. USA, d. Bundesrepublik Deutschland u. d. Schweiz
Höltschi, René; Rockstroh, Christian - 1988
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Van Reenen, John (contributor) - 2006
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Crisis? : what Crisis? : currency vs. banking in the financial crisis of 1931
Ritschl, Albrecht; Salferaz, Samad - 2010
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on … was subsequently cited. results from two wide-ranging surveys, one in Germany and one in the United States, support … expiration in environments such as Germany with highly progressive annual maintenance fees are more valuable and more highly …
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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection
Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version
We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
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