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Using digitized texts scanned by Google and subjected to optical character recognition, I show that heteroskedasticity overtook heteroscedasticity as the preferred spelling in 2001 and has continued to dominate, except for 2005, up to 2008. The latest trends indicate that writers are moving...
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states. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on state history and long-run economic development in four ways. First …, we extend and complete the state history index from Bockstette, Chanda and Putterman (2002) by coding the experience with … since transition to agriculture and state age, as well as subsequent state history. Our estimated unconditional correlation …
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This paper documents the existence of a “Formality Effect” in government communications. Across three online studies and three field experiments in different policy contexts (total N = 67,632), we show that, contrary to scholar and practitioner predictions, formal government communications...
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history and have facilitated trading across time and geographical areas. The results of a quasi-experiment conducted for Japan …
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