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The Debauchery of Currency and Inflation : Chile, 1970-1973
Edwards, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In this essay, I analyze Salvador Allende's economic policies in Chile during the early 1970s. I argue that the explosion of inflation during his administration (above 1,500% on a six-month annualized measure) was predictable, and that the government's response to it, through massive and strict...
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …
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Should Germany Have Built a New Wall? Macroeconomic Lessons from the 2015-18 Refugee Wave
Busch, Christopher - 2020
In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic …
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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or On the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2014
institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …
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A Century of the American Woman Voter : Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women’s Enfranchisement
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020
This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women's political participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that...
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Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records
Price, Joseph - 2019
A key challenge for research on many questions in the social sciences is that it is difficult to link historical records in a way that allows investigators to observe people at different points in their life or across generations. In this paper, we develop a new approach that relies on millions...
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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics
Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2020
Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...
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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462956
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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...
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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...
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