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This paper conducts a systematic quantitative study of cultural convergence and divergence in the United States over … time. Using the General Social Survey (1972-2016), we assess whether cultural values have grown more or less heterogeneous … between-group heterogeneity is extremely small: the United States is very pluralistic in terms of cultural attitudes and …
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navigating cultural and linguistic diversity sets Africans up for success in a globalized world …
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, especially when the latter come from richer countries at intermediate levels of cultural proximity …
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national and subnational business cycles since 1980, this was not accompanied by cultural nor institutional convergence. Such …Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity … heterogeneity within member states themselves, or in well functioning federations such as the US, cultural diversity across EU …
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hasten decarbonization of US aviation. Our estimation and calculations show that airlines can be induced to scrap rather than …
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The behavior of firms in financial distress has attracted considerable academic and policy interest in recent years. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued that airlines in financial distress, particularly those...
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In this paper we construct a short run model of the firm describing the behavior of thirteen U.S. airlines during the difficult transition to deregulation. Several modeling scenarios are developed to assess three common assumptions in cost studies: the use of time as a proxy for technological...
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This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on a route averages thirty-six percent of the...
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The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable public attention and debate since economic deregulation of the industry in 1978. These concerns have energized economic research on three aspects of airline safety. First, has the level of airline safety declined since...
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A number of recent papers have studied the relationship between price and market structure in the deregulated airline industry through a cross-sectional analysis of city-pair markets. Yet, while interesting, several potential difficulties underlie the inferences drawn in these analyses. In this...
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