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Economic activity and the spread of viral diseases : evidence from high frequency data

Adda, Jérôme - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Quarterly Journal of Economics

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...

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Australia: the miracle economy

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …

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How Darwinian should an economy be?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

make the economy less stable at the aggregate level. As in Nelson and Winter (1982), firms differ in their labor … explain the key results. Optimal selectivity is larger, the less "cobweb unstable" the economy, i.e. the more elastic the …

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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor); … - 2008

social insurance. We describe a model economy in which demographics, technology, and social security are linked together. We … study an economy with two locations (sectors), the farm (agricultural) and the city (industrial). The decision to migrate … economy is consistent with the historical transformation in the United States. Initially a majority of voters live on the farm …

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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The end of destitution

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...

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Catch me if you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...

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