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Revitalising the Silk Road : Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China

Yu, Lamont; Tran, Trang; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022

China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …

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Green Infrastructure and Air Pollution : Evidence from Highways Connecting Two Megacities in China

Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang Thu; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022

Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay …

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In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals : NBA Referees as Judges

Mocan, Naci; Osborne-Christenson, Eric - 2022

We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...

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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches

Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

This paper investigates whether there are country-specific characteristics in goal-scoring in the final stage of important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy...

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An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010

This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is initiated by a sudden drop in the social barrier for women to participate in these disciplines. This...

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The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States : Evidence from the FIFA World Cup

Lozano, Fernando - 2009

In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that arises due to which country hosts the World Cup, as this will determine the time games are broadcast...

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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...

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Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches

Cerveny, Jakub - 2016

We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...

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