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Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the july 2005 terror attacks
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - 2008
terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to … central London boroughs as compared to outer London - in fact, police deployment in central London increased by over 30 … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268648
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Lumpy price adjustments: a microeconometric analysis
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2007
This paper presents a simple model of state-dependent pricing that allows identification of the relative importance of the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276257
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269792
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282450
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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007
Askenazy, Philippe - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268711
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Public housing and residential segregation of immigrants in France, 1968-1999
Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274609
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The French unhappiness puzzle: The cultural dimension of happiness
Senik, Claudia - 2011
-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286851
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"One Muslim is enough!" Evidence from a field experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286872
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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286900