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Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021

Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...

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Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics

Lowes, Sara - 2022

This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...

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Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism

Inman, Robert P. - 2010

What is it about federal governance that makes it so attractive to economists, political philosophers, and legal scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to more efficient public and private economies, as the...

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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Hariri, Jacob Gerner; … - 2015

We document that rules for leadership succession in ethnic societies that antedate the modern state predict contemporary political regimes; leadership selection by election in indigenous societies is associated with contemporary representative democracy. The basic association, however, is...

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The "Names Game" : Harnessing Inventors' Patent Data for Economic Research

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2010

The goal of this paper is to lay out a methodology and corresponding computer algorithms, that allow us to extract the …. We have thus developed an elaborate methodology and computerized procedure to address this problem in a comprehensive way … individuals, there may be plenty of opportunities to deploy this methodology to other areas of economic research as well …

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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

Chen, Xi - 2010

One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...

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The Billion Prices Project : Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research

Cavallo, Alberto - 2016

New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and...

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War and Relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2021

We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....

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The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Caselli, Francesco - 2013

We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...

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