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Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last?

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007

Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach to macroeconomic and structural...

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Bowling with Trump: Economic Anxiety, Racial Identification, and Well-Being in the 2016 Presidential Election

Fabian, Mark; Breunig, Robert; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020

-observed positive relationship between racial animus and Trump's vote share is eliminated by introducing an interaction between racial … significant positive association with Trump's vote share, but this is offset by high levels of relatedness. Together, these two … and worldview defense theory. We find no effect on Trump's performance from social capital or exposure to trade shocks …

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Growing up in a recession: beliefs and the macroeconomy

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009

Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....

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A call for comparative research: Consequences of a rising income inequality for state activities

Neubäumer, Renate - 2011

The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...

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Macroeconomic policy and unemployment by economic activity: evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...

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Cross-country differences in productivity: the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa - 2008

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity design, and control functions. It discusses identification of traditionally used average parameters and more...

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Understanding instrumental variables in models with essential heterogeneity

Heckman, James Joseph; Urzúa, Sergio; Vytlacil, Edward - 2006

This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt treatments (participate in programs) with at least partial knowledge of their idiosyncratic...

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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...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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