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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found that richer people tend to be happier. However, relatively little attention has been paid to...

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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

data ; economics profession …

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Sovereign bonds since Waterloo

Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2019

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...

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The rate of return on everything, 1870-2015

Jordà, Òscar; Knoll, Katharina; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; … - 2018

This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...

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How do financial crises redistribute risk?

Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023

We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...

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The economics of skyscrapers : a synthesis

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Barr, Jason - 2020

This paper provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge on the economics of skyscrapers. First, we document how …

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Reactivity in economic science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

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Recent temporal dynamics in economics : empirical analyses of annual publications in economic fields

Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2024

economics with the highest dynamics (largest rates of change in paper counts). We found that the field with the largest paper …

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A productive clash of cultures : injecting economics into leadership research

Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … fields could profit from enriching their approach with insights from the other field. We review and synthesize the economics … detailed understanding of transactional methods that economists have developed. We link the contributions in economics to a …

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Human capital affects religious identity : causal evidence from Kenya

Alfonsi, Livia; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2023

We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...

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