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Illicit shadows : an economic analysis of trade gaps in cultural goods through the Italian market

Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023

This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...

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Creativity over time and space

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa

Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016

in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the … homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people than a more distant town following the removal of mobility … areas. We find evidence for path dependence in the aggregate, but substantial heterogeneity across town densities. An …

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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China

Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Ding, Sai (contributor) - 2008

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...

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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap

Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a...

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Oportunidades : program effect on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues

Angelucci, Manuela; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...

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Resources and standards in urban schools

Machin, Stephen (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2007

Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative Excellence in Cities which has been a flagship...

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Sin city?

Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2007

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

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