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Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? Us and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983437
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The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941983
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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of Covid-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826643
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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success ... And for the Poor?
Cook, Lisa D. - 2011
The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's. The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility. This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128269
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … of their populations in lagging regions experience greater reduction in poverty rates following trade liberalization. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138479
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Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments
Dupas, Pascaline - 2011
Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative health and reduce vulnerability to health shocks. Simply providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to...
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Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2012
Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off? This, indeed, is the dire message of the model presented here in which smart machines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096141
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The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty
Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2012
We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …
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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...
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Meeting Urban Housing Needs : Do People Really Come to the Nuisance?
Depro, Brooks - 2012
Understanding the forces that lead to correlations between pollution exposure, poverty, and race is crucial to the …
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