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Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Barro, Robert J. - 2007
Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey allow us to calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. These conversion rates apply to religion adherence classified into eight major types. In...
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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and … concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; illustrates them within an analytical framework where …
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Choosing Between Peace and War
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
Although most disputes between groups of people are settled peacefully, sometimes disputes result in war. This lecture uses historical examples to illustrate how the ability to negotiate a credible peaceful settlement of a dispute between sovereign states, typically a dispute over the control of...
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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S. - 1995
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim....
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Colonial New Jersey's Provincial Fiscal Structure, 1709-1775 : Spending Obligations, Revenue Sources, and Tax Burdens in War and in Peace
Grubb, Farley - 2015
The spending obligations and revenue sources of colonial New Jersey's provincial government for the years 1704 through 1775 are reconstituted using forensic accounting techniques from primary sources. Such has not been done previously for any British North American colony. These data are used to...
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …
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Marshall's Economies
Henderson, Vernon - 1999
This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...
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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?
Meng, Qinglai - 1999
In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...
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A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999
This paper develops a rent-protection theory of corporate ownership structure - and in particular, of the choice between concentrated and dispersed ownership of corporate shares and votes. The paper analyzes the decision of a company's initial owner whether to maintain a lock on control when the...
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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?
Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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