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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...
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Rebel Governance and Development : The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador
Bandiera, Antonella; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Jimenez, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
displaced state authorities and promoted the creation of self-governing institutions that embodied local values and openly … state. Our results suggest that community institutions in guerrilla-controlled areas led to enduring land fragmentation and … disengagement with the government. We argue that when non-state actors develop alternative governance institutions, they can lead to …
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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...
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Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse
Betz, Michael R.; Partridge, Mark D.; Farren, Michael; … - In: Energy economics 50 (2015), pp. 105-116
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Demand Stimulus as Social Policy
Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Murphy, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We exploit a panel of city-level data with rich demographic information to estimate the distributional effects of Department of Defense spending and its effects on a range of social outcomes. The income generated by defense spending accrues predominantly to households without a bachelor's...
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Oil curse and finance-growth nexus in Malaysia : the role of investment
Badeeb, Ramez Abubakr; Hooi Hooi Lean; Smyth, Russell - In: Energy economics 57 (2016), pp. 154-165
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The Social Costs of Sovereign Default
Farah-Yacoub, Juan P.; Luckner, Clemens von <Graf>; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita. After methodological exclusions, the sample covers 221...
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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public sentiment in the largest economies over the past five years suggest the beginning of a new...
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Understanding the Impacts of a Natural Disaster : Evidence from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Sumantri, Cecep; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Measuring impacts of extreme events on population well-being is complicated if data are not representative of the pre-event at-risk population or a representative sample of the population is not followed post-event. The sources and nature of some important biases are documented using data from...
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