Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

incidence of unusual work times in the U.S. would far exceed those in continental Europe …

conflict in Europe. We attempt to explain some of the remaining variation for specific episodes in which the actual level of …

Europe. There is a nonmonotonic relationship between smoking and income; among richer countries and people, higher incomes … are associated with less smoking. This can account for about one-fifth of the U.S./Europe difference. Almost one-half of …

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …