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XX>XY? : The Changing Female Advantage in Life Expectancy

Goldin, Claudia; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2018

Females live longer than males in most parts of the world today. Among OECD nations in recent years, the difference in life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men? The answer is that they have not. We ask when and why...

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Taxes and Growth : New Narrative Evidence from Interwar Britain

Cloyne, James - 2018

The impact of fiscal policy on economic activity is still a matter of great debate. And, ever since Keynes first commented on it, interwar Britain, 1918- 1939, has remained a particularly contentious case | not least because of its high debt environment and turbulent business cycle. This debate...

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Leadership and Social Norms : Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the Civil War

Dippel, Christian - 2018

A growing theoretical literature emphasizes the role that leaders play in shaping beliefs and social norms. We provide empirical evidence for such 'civic leadership.' We focus on the Forty-Eighters, a group of political refugees from Germany's failed 1848 revolutions, and their role in the...

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London Fog : A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965

Hanlon, W. Walker - 2018

This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London's famous fog events, which trapped emissions in the city. These events are compared to detailed...

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The Diffusion of New Institutions : Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System

Comino, Stefano - 2017

What factors affect the diffusion of new economic institutions? This paper examines this question by exploiting the introduction of the first regularized patent system, which appeared in the Venetian Republic in 1474. We begin by developing a model that links patenting activity of craft guilds...

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Austerity and the rise of the Nazi party

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori - 2017

The current historical consensus on the economic causes of the inexorable Nazi electoral success between 1930 and 1933 suggests this was largely related to the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression (high unemployment and financial instability). However, these factors cannot fully account...

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The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System. Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation

Bordo, Michael - 2017

The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central …

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Frontier Culture : The Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel - 2017

The presence of a westward-moving frontier of settlement shaped early U.S. history. In 1893, the historian Frederick … identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790-1890 period and …-south. We provide suggestive evidence on the roots of frontier culture: selective migration, an adaptive advantage of self …

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Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

Barjamovic, Gojko - 2017

We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE. Using the information collected from these records, we estimate a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age. We use our structural gravity model to locate lost ancient...

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Emigration during the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée

Franck, Raphaël - 2017

During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...

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