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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger … Switzerland and that entering messengers must work in performance pay firms in the U.S. We find that the erosion of cooperation …
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In 1979, when anthropometric history was still in its infancy, Robert Fogel and collaborators reported that the height … were offered, not until 1987 was the comprehensive solution to the puzzle offered that the height decline was due primarily …
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proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … declined. A thorough analysis of the Union Army height data, considering recruiting periods as short as 90 days during which … height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is representative of the trend in the physical stature …
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Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
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This appendix describes in detail the college site selection decisions used in the paper "How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges" (Andrews 2020)
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After the development of Atlantic trade in the nineteenth century, the United States of America (US) became economically important place, attracting to a labour flow from neighbouring countries and other continents. Meanwhile, serious economic and political shocks were experienced by the Ottoman...
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This article explores Douglass North’s intellectual development as a political economist and an interdisciplinary researcher. Although he was an important figure during the cliometrics revolution, he later grew dissatisfied with the approach and went on to study institutions, helping to...
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In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...
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Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we employ a bibliometric approach and compare the content and orientation of economic literature before and after the crisis with reference to two different samples: A large-scale...
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