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Value of time : speeding behavior and gasoline prices
Wolff, Hendrik - 2012
Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a significant negative relationship between speeding and gasoline prices. This presents a new...
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No pass no drive : education and allocation of time
Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - 2012
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements for teenagers to obtain driving licenses. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535815
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Organization and information in the fight against crime : an evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Souza, Igor Viveiros de - 2010
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and...
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The cost impact of spam filters : measuring the effect of information system technologies in organizations
Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2008
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762188
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666472
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of … development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre …
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Disease environment and civil conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011
also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …
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Geographical roots of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
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Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia
Goldring, Thomas; Ribar, David C. - 2024
High-quality childcare services are vital to children's development and family wellbeing but are not equitably accessed by all children. Programs supported by the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) have the potential to reduce these inequities. Economically eligible Black children use...
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