Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be … indicate that, as of late, bitcoin has become increasingly interdependent with gold, and seems just as suitable to hedge …

-natural experiment - the gold rush in the second part of the 19th century. We argue that the presence of gold attracted individuals with … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …

son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of dowry, we use variation in gold prices to … investigate this. First, we exploit a sharp unexpected rise in the price of gold in 1980 and, using a difference …-in-discontinuities design, find that the gold price hike is mirrored in an increase in girl relative to boy mortality in the neonatal and infant …

size of the present-day LGBT population to the discovery of gold mines during the 19th century gold rushes. Comparing the … surroundings of these gold mines to other current and former mining counties, we find that there are currently 10-15% more same …-sex couples in counties in which gold discoveries were made during the gold rushes. We also provide empirical evidence that …

obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show … the potential costly policy mistakes that may arise from arbitrarily adopting a single measure as a gold standard. …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War …. -- Fertility ; baby boom ; World War II ; female labor-force participation …