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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?

Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...

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Giant oilfields and civil conflict

Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

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The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization

Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due to economic or political reasons. I examine this...

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Fracking Growth

Fetzer, Thiemo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...

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The Provision of Relative Performance Feedback Information: An Experimental Analysis of Performance and Happiness

Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper studies the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on individuals' performance and … when receiving feedback, they are asked to rate their happiness, arousal and feeling of dominance. Control subjects learn …. Under piece-rate, performance is 17 percent higher when relative performance feedback is provided. Furthermore, although …

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The Importance of Relative Performance Feedback Information: Evidence from a Natural Experiment using High School Students

Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We study the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on performance under piece-rate incentives …

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Turning houses into gold: the failure of British planning

Cheshire, Paul - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

, it is a result of decades of misguided planning policies that constrain the supply of land and turn houses into something …

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UK Housing and Planning Policies: the evidence from economic research

Hilber, Christian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Housing affordability is a key concern of an ever-larger fraction of UK voters who are crammed into artificially limited space. At the same time, a lot of wealth lies in housing assets and there are many vested interests in keeping things this way, such as current homeowners and private...

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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...

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Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

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