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We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of …
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This study exploits the October 2008 economic crisis in Iceland to identify the effects of a macroeconomic downturn on …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in …
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We exploit a volcanic “experiment" to study the costs and benefits of geographic mobility. We show that moving costs (broadly defined) are very large and labor therefore does not flow to locations where it earns the highest returns. In our experiment, a third of the houses in a town were...
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In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...
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(“misfortunes”) or imperfect decisions (“mistakes”). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before …
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in upgrading a country's fiscal institutions. We conclude with the fiscal history of Iceland before and after the …
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In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...
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Where the state is weak, traditional authorities often control the local provision of land, justice, and public goods. These authorities are criticized for ruling in an undemocratic and unaccountable fashion, and are typically quite old and poorly educated relative to younger cohorts who have...
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