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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …'s decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065640
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Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
Mitchener, Kris James; Weidenmier, Marc - 2021
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine marked a turning point in American foreign policy. In 1904, President Roosevelt announced that, not only were European powers not welcome in the Americas, but that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of Central American and Caribbean...
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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA
Price, Joseph - 2009
Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur … levels of interracial cooperation can occur in a setting where workers are operating in a highly visible setting with strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764827
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Kinship, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Moral Systems
Enke, Benjamin - 2017
, cooperation appears to be enforced through universal moral values; internalized guilt; altruistic punishment; and an apparent rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954472
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Teaching Practices and Social Capital
Algan, Yann - 2015
working on projects together) are strongly related to various dimensions of social capital, from beliefs in cooperation to … cooperation both with each other and with teachers, and students' involvement in civic life. A two-stage least square strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037555
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The Division of Labor in Teams : A Conceptual Framework and Application to Collaborations in Science
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992149
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Intergovernmental Cooperation and Tax Enforcement
Troiano, Ugo - 2017
Improving the efficiency of tax collection is important for development and fairness purposes. I study the Audit Exchange Information Agreements, which are agreements between the states and the U.S. federal government to exchange information about income tax audit plans and techniques, signed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940795
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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2017
Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947026
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Starting Small : Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
Andreoni, James - 2016
types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to “start small,” so that …
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