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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on government- and market-attitudes
Goff, Sandra; Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Reents, Alex - 2020
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...
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Do nominations close the gender gap in competition?
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2020
Experiments have demonstrated that men are more willing to compete than women in stereotypically male tasks. We examine whether nominations close this gender gap. For example, are male nominators more willing than female nominators to enter nominees into competitions. Further, we consider the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314942
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Was higher education a major channel through which the US became an economic superpower in the 20th century?
Cook, Adam; Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018
schooling, job training, and health as well as through research and development projects and informal knowledge transfers (cf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881092
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Close encounters of the European kind: economic integration, sectoral heterogeneity and structural reforms
Campos, Nauro; Eichenauer, Vera; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...
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Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America
Hauk, Esther; Oviedo, Mónica; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model which introduces taxes into Foellmi and...
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The American origin of the French Revolution
Ottinger, Sebastian; Rosenberger, Lukas - 2023
France sent five thousand men to fight alongside George Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War. We show that the French combatants' exposure to the United States of America increased support for the French Revolution a decade later. French regions (départements) from which more...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734518
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms : evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Kinoshita, Yuko (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656909