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The Economic Consequences of the Opium War

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western colonial influence was introduced in dozens of so-called treaty ports. We document a turnaround during the 19th century in the nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before...

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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey : The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk

Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019

This study uses hedonic property models to explore how coastal real estate markets subject to heterogeneous information treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by examining non-local flooding events. Utilizing a...

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Voting with their Sandals : Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk

Bernstein, Asaf - 2020

Climate change partisanship is reflected in residential choice. Comparing individual occupants at properties in the same zip code with similar elevation and proximity to the coast, registered republicans (democrats) are more (less) likely than independents to own houses exposed to sea level rise...

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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China

Demurger, Sylvie - 2002

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...

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The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2014

In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected nature of the spill and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of...

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2009

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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Short-run subsidies and long-run adoption of new health products : evidence from a field experiment

Dupas, Pascaline - 2010

in a two-stage randomized field experiment in Kenya. We find that, for a new technology with a lower usage cost than the …

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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …

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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...

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