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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting

Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024

In this study we evaluate the role that Mediterranean Medieval trade with Africa and the Middle-East still plays today … in Italian politics by shaping the attitudes towards migrants of individuals that live close to Medieval ports. Trade …

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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001

increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in … precisely that evidence of a powerful pro-trade effect of international migration. Here we extend that body of evidence by … looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect …

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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study

Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006

. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture coevolution …

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …

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The use of quantile methods in economic history

Clarke, Damian; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel; Pailañir, Daniel - 2021

Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The use of quantile methods allows for an examination of impacts of some independent variable over the entire distribution...

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The slaughter of the bison and reversal of fortunes on the Great Plains

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - 2022

In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences for the Native Americans who relied on them and ultimately resulted in a permanent reversal of...

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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