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There is an urgent need for interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding in the study of what determines resistance to disasters and recovery speed. This paper is an economist's contribution to that effort. It traces the entrance of the word “resilience” from ecology into the social...
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We explore whether financial access explains persistent gender and racial imbalance in entrepreneurship. The 1979 NLSY overlaps with bank deregulation events between 1971 and 2001, permitting a difference in differences analysis of the propensity for young people to attempt entrepreneurship. We...
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Much of the population in developing countries uses firewood for cooking. The resulting indoor air pollution has severe health consequences for children who are close to the fire while their mothers cook. We use survey data from Guatemala to examine the effects of firewood consumption on the...
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