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How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
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Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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throughout the now poor world. Many see related threats to public health from current globalization. Multilateral and bilateral … convergence of adult mortality rates among the rich of the world, particularly men. Globalization would do much for global health …/AIDS. However, to the extent that globalization promotes economic growth, population health may benefit, and there has been …
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In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed … public good (GPG) and the second under "beggar-thy-neighbor" (BTN) policies. However, the world economy is not a global …
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This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …
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Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …
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between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …
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Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …
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We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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