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The Role of Lactose Tolerance in Pre-Colonial Development

Cook, Charles J. - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper establishes a link between natural selection since the Neolithic Revolution and economic conditions in the pre-colonial era. The ability to digest milk, or to be lactose tolerant, is conferred by a gene variant, which is unequally distributed across the Old World. Digesting milk...

Do Driver Decisions in Traffic Court Motivate Police Discrimination in Issuing Speeding Tickets?

Quintanar, Sarah Marx - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This research provides new insights into police discrimination by following individuals’ decisions in the court process from the time a speeding ticket is issued to trial. Quintanar (2011) finds that African-Americans and women are more likely to receive a speeding ticket from a police officer...

Key Players and Key Groups in Teams

Sarangi, Sudipta; Cannonier, Colin; Panda, Bibhudutta - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

Using data for 2008-2009, we determine winning strategies for the game in two different formats: 50-over one-day internationals and 20-over games from the Indian Premier League and Twenty20 Internationals. We find that attacking batting and defensive bowling outperform all other strate- gies in...

Efficient Networks in Models of Player and Partner Heterogeneity

Unlu, Emre - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper contributes to the literature on centrality measures in economics by defining a team game and identifying …

Key Players and Key Groups in Teams

Sarangi, Sudipta; Unlu, Emre - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper contributes to the literature on centrality measures in economics by defining a team game and identifying …

Modeling Resource Flow Asymmetries using Condensation Networks

Sarangi, Sudipta; Billand, Pascal; Bravard, Christophe - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper analyzes the asymmetries with regard to the resources obtained by groups of players in equilibrium networks. We use the notion of condensation networks which allows us to partition the population into sets of players who obtain the same resources and we order these sets according to...

Productivity Growth in Goods and Services across US States: What can We Learn from Factor Prices?

Chanda, Areendam; Panda, Bibhudutta - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper exploits the dual accounting technique to uncover multi-factor productivity growth patterns for goods and services across US states from 1980 to 2007. Due to changes in sectoral classifications, the period is divided into two parts, 1980-1997 and 1998-2007. Over both periods, states...

Born with The Right Surname: Lineage Networks and Political and Economic Opportunities in Rural China

Pan, Ying - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

Rural China provides a useful case for investigating how traditional lineage networks affect people’s political and economic opportunities in the new industrial economy. Since the 1950s, China’s restrictive migration policy has frozen the size of lineages; and the Commune system has...

Costly Labor Reallocation, Non-Separable Preferences, and Expectation Driven Business Cycles

Katayama, Munechika; Kim, Kwang Hwan - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

A key feature of the business cycle data is that output, employment and investment move up and down together in dierent … sectors of the economy. However, standard business cycle models fail to generate this business cycle sectoral co-movement. In … this paper we propose a two-sector business cycle model that generates the sectoral cycle co-movement in response to both …

Crime and Unemployment: Evidence from Europe

Altindag, Duha Tore - Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on crime using a country-level panel data set from Europe that contains consistently-measured crime and police force statistics. Unemployment has a positive impact on monetary crimes, and instrumenting unemployment with the exchange rate...