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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Giorcelli, Michela
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
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作者：Saavedra, Martin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Did women's suffrage affect media sentiment toward voting rights and narratives about women more generally? I identify pro- and anti-suffrage language using publications that explicitly argued for or against early voting reform. I then measure media sentiment using language in newspapers and topic modeling to identify common themes about either suffrage or women. Difference-in-differences estimates show that newspaper coverage of suffrage increased when women won the vote but then declined bel...
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作者：Blouin, Arthur; Dyer, Julian
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Exeter
摘要：We introduce a data-driven approach to use language to reconstruct history, and apply the methodology to estimate the geographic origins of religious spread. To validate the approach, we use language data to estimate origins of Islam and Buddhism to within 500km of their true (and uncontested) origins. We then apply the methodology to the more complex (and contested) cases of Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. We show that language-based estimates, in these cases, are significantly more alig...
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作者：Geweke, Jonas M.; Rost, Katja
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：Early modern urban parliaments suffered an increasing monopolization of political power that hampered urban development. To combat power monopolization, some Swiss city-states reformed their election systems by randomly selecting political representatives from a pre-elected pool of candidates. We implement a difference-in-differences design and find that lottery-based election systems improved the equality of distribution of political seats within parliaments. Lottery-based elections also had ...
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作者：Chuchko, Marina
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
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作者：Agudo, David Gonzalez
作者单位：University of Valencia
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作者：Quinn, William; Turner, John D.
作者单位：Queens University Belfast
摘要：How do different types of investors perform during financial bubbles? Using a rich archival source, we explore investor performance during the British bicycle mania of the 1890s. We find that directors and employees of cycle companies reduced their holdings substantially during the crash. Those holding shares after the crash were generally not from groups stereotypically thought of as na & iuml;ve, but gentlemen living near a stock exchange, who had sufficient time, money, and opportunity to e...
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作者：Jalil, Andrew
作者单位：Occidental College
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作者：Saavedra, Martin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
