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Rethinking waste within business history : a transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II

Denton, Chad; Weber, Heike - In: Business history 64 (2022) 5, pp. 855-881

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Simple estimation of semiparametric models with measurement errors

Evdokimov, Kirill S.; Zeleneev, Andrei - 2022 - This version: 2022/02/22

We develop a practical way of addressing the Errors-In-Variables (EIV) problem in the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) framework. We focus on the settings in which the variance of the measurement errors is a fraction of that of the mismeasured variables, which is typical for empirical...

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Is inconsistent reporting of self-assessed health persistent and systematic? : evidence from the UKHLS

Davillas, Apostolos; Silva, Víctor Hugo de Oliveira; … - 2022

We capitalise on an opportunity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which asks respondents the same SAH question with identical wording two times. This is done once with a self-completion and once with an open interview mode within the same household interview over four waves. We estimate...

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America, Jump-started : World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation System

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022

During World War II, the U.S. government's Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) undertook one of the largest public investments in applied R&D in U.S. history, entering into thousands of contracts with firms and universities to perform research essential to the war effort. Using...

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Analyzing subjective well-being data with misclassification

Oparina, Ekaterina; Srisuma, Sorawoot - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 40 (2022) 2, pp. 730-743

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From taxation to fighting for the nation : historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI

Bagnato, Luca - 2022

tax, by itself, have a role in driving this effect? I study how the historical capacity of a state to collect taxes … affects the decision of citizens to evade the mandatory military draft. I look at Italy during World War I and identify quasi … collected and digitised individual data on nearly all the men of the 1899 cohort drafted in the province of Turin, I find that …

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Flexibility I-deals and prosocial motives : a trickle-down perspective

Taser, Didem; Rofcanin, Yasin; Las Heras, Mireia; … - In: International journal of human resource management 33 (2022) 21, pp. 4334-4359

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Volatility Connectedness Across Oil-Dependent Currencies : A Multivariate Har with Measurement Errors Approach

Nguyen, Thao T.T; Do, Hung Xuan; Li, Xiaoming - 2022

This paper proposes a convenient approach to measure the time-varying volatility connectedness indexes by developing the connectedness measures within a multivariate Heterogeneous Autoregressive model with measurement errors (VHAR-Q). We utilize this framework to examine the dynamic volatility...

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The Economics of Civilian Victimization : Evidence from World War II Italy

Bertazzini, Mattia; Giorcelli, Michela - 2022

Does variation in soldiers’ accountability explain civilian victimization in armed conflicts? We answerthis question by studying the Italian Campaign inWorldWar II (July 1943 - May 1945). We leverageplausibly exogenous variation in the movement of 32 front lines that negatively shocked the...

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Die Substitution fossiler Energieträger : die Analyse wirtschaftlicher Kurz- und Langfristwirkungen

Mittnik, Stefan; Semmler, Willi - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 91 (2022) 3, pp. 11-44

Die gegenwärtigen Kontroversen zu den Auswirkungen eines Energieembargos gegen Russland, ausgelöst durch Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine, haben den Fokus auf die Verringerung der Abhängigkeit von fossilen Energieträgern und eine Neuordnung der Energieversorgung gelegt....

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