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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455123
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000
medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of … population and economic development in determining medal totals from 1960-1996. We also provide out of sample predictions for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470733
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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479144
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Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations
Adão, Rodrigo - 2020
distribution across generations. The economy's transitional dynamics have a representation as a q-theory of skill investment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479149
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An Experiment in Candidate Selection
Casey, Katherine - 2019
Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these distinct design choices are unclear:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480106
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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482664
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Testing the Waters : Behavior across Participant Pools
Snowberg, Erik - 2018
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population …, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the … external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452940
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America : Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2018
We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The survival and growth of immigrant-owned businesses over time relative to native-founded companies is evaluated by linking the 2007 SBO to the Longitudinal Business Database...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453221
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463450
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Days of Haze : Environmental Information Disclosure and Intertemporal Avoidance Behavior
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2008
In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of informational regulatory approaches by analyzing the impact of smog alerts issued on consecutive days on discretionary outdoor activities in Southern California. Short-run adjustments to transitory risk entail costs that are likely to influence the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464378