Search Results - "The Economic journal (London)"

Air Pollution and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China by Fu, Shihe, Viard, V Brian, Zhang, Peng

“…Abstract We provide nationwide causal estimates of air pollution's effect on short-run productivity for China's manufacturing sector from 1998 to 2007. Using…”
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Target Setting in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from China by Li, Xing, Liu, Chong, Weng, Xi, Zhou, Li-An

“…Abstract Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to…”
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets by Autor, David H., Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H.

“…We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in US local labour markets between 1980 and 2007. Labour markets whose initial industry…”
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Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review by Hengel, Erin

“…Abstract Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the…”
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Acts of God? Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts by Sinding Bentzen, Jeanet

“…Abstract Religious beliefs potentially influence individual behaviour. But why are some societies more religious than others? One possible answer is religious…”
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Poverty and Aspirations Failure by Dalton, Patricio S., Ghosal, Sayantan, Mani, Anandi

“…We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure', defined as the failure to aspire to one's own potential. In…”
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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence by Anderberg, Dan, Rainer, Helmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Wilson, Tanya

“…Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in…”
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IDENTIFYING UNCERTAINTY SHOCKS USING THE PRICE OF GOLD by Piffer, Michele, Podstawski, Maximilian

“…We propose an instrument to identify uncertainty shocks in a proxy structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR). The instrument equals the variations in the…”
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INTERGENERATIONAL WEALTH MOBILITY AND THE ROLE OF INHERITANCE: EVIDENCE FROM MULTIPLE GENERATIONS by Adermon, Adrian, Lindahl, Mikael, Waldenström, Daniel

“…This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and examines the degree to which the wealth association between…”
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Curbing the Credit Cycle by Aikman, David, Haldane, Andrew G., Nelson, Benjamin D.

“…Credit cycles have been a characteristic of advanced economies for over 100 years. On average, a sustained pick-up in the ratio of credit to GDP has been…”
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HUMAN CAPITAL, TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: IMPACTS OF CHINA'S HIGHER EDUCATION EXPANSION IN THE LATE 1990S by Che, Yi, Zhang, Lei

“…We exploit a policy-induced exogenous surge in China's college-educated workforce that started in 2003 to identify the impact of human capital on productivity…”
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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour by Conti, Gabriella, Heckman, James J., Pinto, Rodrigo

“…This article examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions…”
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Identification of Financial Factors in Economic Fluctuations by Furlanetto, Francesco, Ravazzolo, Francesco, Sarferaz, Samad

“…We estimate demand, supply, monetary, investment and financial shocks in a VAR identified with a minimum set of sign restrictions on US data. We find that…”
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LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FOR A MIDLIFE NADIR IN HUMAN WELL-BEING: RESULTS FROM FOUR DATA SETS by Cheng, Terence C., Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Oswald, Andrew J.

“…There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely…”
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Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation using Convex Time Budgets by Imai, Taisuke, Rutter, Tom A, Camerer, Colin F

“…Abstract We examine 220 estimates of the present-bias parameter from 28 articles using the Convex Time Budget protocol. The literature shows that people are on…”
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Does management matter in schools? by Bloom, Nick, Lemos, Renata, Sadun, Raffaella, Van Reenen, John

“…We collect data on management practices in over 1,800 high schools in eight countries. We show that higher management quality is strongly associated with…”
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Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification by Lippmann, Quentin, Georgieff, Alexandre, Senik, Claudia

“…Abstract Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the German Democratic Republic’s gender-equal institutions created a…”
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The transmission of inequality across multiple generations: Testing recent theories with evidence from Germany by Braun, Sebastian Till, Stuhler, Jan

“…This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger than estimates from two…”
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Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration by Bandiera, Oriana, Mohnen, Myra, Rasul, Imran, Viarengo, Martina

“…Abstract Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We…”
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Subsidising the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from the UK’S Eat-Out-to-Help-Out Scheme by Fetzer, Thiemo

“…Abstract This paper documents that a large-scale government subsidy aimed at encouraging people to eat out in restaurants in the wake of the first 2020…”
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