This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant … the causal relationships among these energy transition metals and other major assets like gold and bitcoin, and how they …, likely as a result of bitcoin's extensive use of energy and the uncertainty and volatility that characterize post-covid times. …

is driven by non-agricultural income. -- Infant mortality ; income volatility ; business cycles ; India ; health care …This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

indicate that, as of late, bitcoin has become increasingly interdependent with gold, and seems just as suitable to hedge …

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the …

and customers are prone to fraudulent behavior of sellers and resulting market inefficiencies. We present the first model … framework. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic …

-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 …

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil …