Using the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, where about 456 nuclear tests occurred between 1949 and 1989, this paper examines the long-term health and well-being impacts of sustained radiation exposure. Results show that nuclear exposure significantly increases the risk of chronic disease...

Using the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, where about 456 nuclear tests occurred between 1949 and 1989, this paper examines the long-term health and well-being impacts of sustained radiation exposure. Results show that nuclear exposure significantly increases the risk of chronic disease...

We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...

Using Current Population Survey data from 2017 to 2022 and difference-in-difference models, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic unemployment gaps conditional on gender. We find that early in the pandemic for the full sample and within sub-groups of women and men that...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship among CO2 emissions and some significant economic and environmental variables in India in a VECM approach during the period from 1980 to 2023. In the analyses performed, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have been considered as the dependent variable,...

This study examines whether long-term institutional shareholdings affect the informativeness of analyst target price revisions.Using institutional investors' portfolio holdings and a sample of 53,988 target prices from 2000 to 2019, we relate cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) to long-term...