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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019
Combining eight years of panel data with an event study approach, we show that rural Chinese women's labor supply falls …
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries … level. Weekly forecasts from our model are published at https://laurayuliu.com/covid19-panel-forecast …
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The Price and Quantity of Interest Rate Risk
Carpenter, Jennifer N.; Lu, Fangzhou; Whitelaw, Robert F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
interpret. We propose a new approach to modeling bond risk and risk premia. For each of the US and China, we reduce the …-variation in the term structure of bond risk premia in both the US and China …
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Misallocation, Selection and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2017
We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of … to land institutions in rural China that disproportionately constrain the more productive farmers. These frictions reduce … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers …
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Folklore
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2019
Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479386
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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Atkin, David - 2019
Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods (e.g. beef and pork) systematically...
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Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940
Dahis, Ricardo - 2019
This paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880 - 1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races. We provide a rich set of descriptive evidence on the lives of black men "passing" for...
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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 participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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