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Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest
Ba, Bocar A.; Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Rivera, Roman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how negative sentiment around an industry impacts beliefs and behaviors, focusing on demands for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd and the salience of the "defund the police" movement. We assess stakeholder beliefs on the impact of protests on the stock prices of...
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The Need for Enemies
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2012
We develop a political economy model where some politicians have a comparative advantage in undertaking a task and this gives them an electoral advantage. This creates an incentive to underperform in the task in order to maintain their advantage. We interpret the model in the context of fighting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460349
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Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom
Kim, Scott Daewon; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660113
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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon L. - 2008
effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464615
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernández, Raquel - 2014
-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …
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Narrative Economics
Shiller, Robert J. - 2017
This address considers the epidemiology of narratives relevant to economic fluctuations. The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities...
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Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years
Romer, Christina; Romer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The narrative approach to macroeconomic identification uses qualitative sources, such as newspapers or government records, to provide information that can help establish causal relationships. This paper discusses the requirements for rigorous narrative analysis using fresh research on the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250187
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Causal Narratives
Kendall, Chad W.; Charles, Constantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the generation, transmission, and effects of causal narratives - narratives which describe a (potentially incorrect) causal relationship between variables. In a controlled experiment, we show that exogenously generated causal narratives manipulate the beliefs and actions of subjects in...
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The Forging of a Rebel
Marchais, Gauthier; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Sanchez de … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use variation in exposure to victimization of 1,537 households of eastern Congo for each year of 1990-2013 to examine the formation of preferences to participate in armed groups. In this context, most armed groups are Congolese militia, whose objective is fighting foreign armed groups. We...
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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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