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Lagakos, David; Michalopulos, Stelios; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

What does it take to live a meaningful life? We exploit a unique corpus of over 1,400 life narratives of older Americans collected by a team of writers during the 1930s. We combine detailed human readings with large language models (LLMs) to extract systematic information on critical junctures,...

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Inequality is bad for growth of the poor (but not for that of the rich)

Weide, Roy van der; Milanović, Branko - In: The World Bank economic review 32 (2018) 3, pp. 507-530

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Crisis? What crisis? Currency vs. banking in the Financial Crisis of 1931

Ritschl, Albrecht; Sarferaz, Samad - 2010

This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through...

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Out of sight, out of mind? : the impact of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes

Simeonova, Emilia - 2009

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...

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Business Failures by Branch of Business in the United States, 1895 to 1935 : A Statistical History

Richardson, Gary; Angel, Marco del; Gou, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. Those series evolved through many iterations. This essay reconstructs the series from 1895 to 1935 and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis

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Does relative income matter? : are the critics right?

Layard, Peter R. G.; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2009

Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …

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This Time is Different, Again? The United States Five Years after the Onset of Subprime

Reinhart, Carmen; Kenneth, Rogoff - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We focus on four previous systemic financial crises that the United States has experienced since 1870. These include the crisis of 1873 (called the Great Depression until the 1930s), the 1893 crisis, the panic of 1907, and the Great Depression. Given that all of the earlier crises predate the...

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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

endogenous growth, new economic geography and regional innovation systems. This framework forms the basis of the subsequent …

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Study on university-business cooperation in the US

Ranga, Marina; Hoareau, Cecile; Durazzi, Niccolo; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

University-Business Cooperation (UBC) is a relationship in flux, reflecting issues specific to the transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. UBC is undergoing a transformation from a dyadic university-business relationship, aimed at solving firm problems, sourcing new products or...

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American tariff policy and the British alkali industry, 1880-1905

Varian, Brian - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

Until the late nineteenth century, the British alkali industry enjoyed a colossal export market in the United States. Yet, as several scholars have already noted, the highly protectionist Dingley Tariff of 1897 caused a precipitous and irreversible decline in the volume of British alkali exports...

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