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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration

Morten, Melanie - 2016

How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...

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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance : Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from US States

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2009

This paper was prepared for a session of the 2009 American Economic Association meeting devoted to examining the views of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro. I had written an article in 1992 in the Economist and...

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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020

We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...

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Gender and Culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …

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National Cultures and Soccer Violence

Miguel, Edward - 2008

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …

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