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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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How deep are the roots of economic development?

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012

analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …

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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …

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Covid-19 full-dose vaccination across uninsured populations : evidence across counties in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2022

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

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Earthquakes, religion, and transition to self-government in Italian cities

Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2015

For a panel of 122 cities observed over 300 years in medieval northern-central Italy, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition from the feudal regime to the commune (free city state) in cities where the political and the religious leaders were one and...

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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999

Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...

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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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Does electricity drive structural transformation? : evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana; Morin, Miguel - 2019

are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history …

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Industrial clusters in the long run : evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China

Heblich, Stephan; Marlon, Seror; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2019

This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...

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The employment effect of inward FDI in China : what do we learn from the history?

Wang, Hao; Ji, Yuemei; Luo, Qi - 2020 - This version 19 June 2020

information about Chinese modern history during 1842-1955). Our results show that the inward FDI has a positive effect on …

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