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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462742
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Privatization and nationalization cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2009
"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394323
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Privatization and Nationalization Cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2010
This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462530
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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption
Cai, Hongbin - 2009
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463582
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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830 : A New Source for British History
Bogart, Dan - 2008
A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464254
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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Morck, Randall - 2007
feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465482
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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388783
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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas - 2024
How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056202
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When Information Conflicts with Obligations : the Role of Motivated Cognition
Wang, Ao; Wang, Shaoda; Ye, Xiaoyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We experimentally test how psychological motivations can impact the processing of purely objective information. We first document that, when the high-stakes College Entrance Exam is held in the month of Ramadan, Chinese Muslim students perform significantly worse. When asked about the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435143
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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion
Giles, Tyler; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Oostrom, Tamar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent decades, death rates from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these "deaths of despair" began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537734