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Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States : Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
Fritscher, André C. Martínez - 2009
commodities that were in high demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) between 1891 and 1930 ended up having higher revenues per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463238
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The Effects of Fair Trade Certification : Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
Dragusanu, Raluca - 2018
We examine the effects of Fair Trade (FT) certification of coffee on producers and households in Costa Rica. Examining … the production dynamics of the universe of Costa Rican coffee mills from 1999-2014, we find that FT certification is … associated with a higher sales price, greater sales, and more revenues. As expected, these effects are greater when global coffee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453454
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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions … light on why the United States supported (or failed to support) international commodity agreements for coffee, sugar, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334385
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Acquisitions, Management, and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry
Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal …
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Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
Mitchener, Kris James - 2004
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine marked a turning point in American foreign policy. In 1904, President Roosevelt announced that, not only were European powers not welcome in the Americas, but that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of Central American and Caribbean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467961
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Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
Fernandez, Raquel - 2000
Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471268
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Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
Borjas, George J. - 2020
New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the New York City zip code level with demographic and socioeconomic information from the decennial census and the American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481909
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Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule : Evidence from the Congo Free State
Lowes, Sara - 2020
All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482112
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Social Structure and Development : A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462572
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Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality
Gordon, Robert J. - 2009
Recent contributions in the inequality literature have raised questions about previous research on skill-biased technical change and the managerial power of CEOs. Directly supporting our theme of prior exaggeration of the rise of inequality is new research showing that price indexes for the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463299