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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：Chuchko, Marina
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
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作者：Saavedra, Martin
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
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作者：Robles-Baez, Christian; Medina, Luis Fernando; Bucheli, Marcelo
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作者：Grant, Arthur H. Cole
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作者：Harrison, James
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; United States Naval Academy
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作者：Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Harvard University
摘要：We study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930. Using a shift-share design, we find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have children, and leave the parental house earlier. Our evidence suggests that immigration increased native men's employment, thereby raising the supply of native marriageable men. We consider alternative channels-such as compositional change...
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作者：Loualiche, Erik; Vickers, Chris; Ziebarth, Nicolas L.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Auburn University System; Auburn University; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：We study how firms allocate resources across their constituent establishments in response to local economic shocks in the context of the Great Depression. Using establishment-level data from the Census of Manufactures, we find that establishments in multi-plant firms are affected by local shocks in the regions in which the other establishments comprising the firm are located. In particular, establishment employment is positively affected by positive shocks to the local supply of credit to othe...
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作者：Ostermeyer, Vinzent
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：Cross-country regressions suggest that protectionism supported industrialization. I leverage novel and highly granular data covering Swedish manufacturing firms to estimate the impact of Sweden's shift toward protectionism after 1891 on establishment-level development. Using mainly two-way fixed effects regressions, I show that tariff increases had a heterogeneous impact across establishments: initially low-productivity establishments increased their productivity, while initially high-producti...
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作者：Wigton-Jones, Evan
作者单位：Husson University
摘要：This research shows that droughts are robustly associated with city-level unrest in Europe over the years 900 to 1800 ce. This relationship is non-linear, with disproportionately greater increases in the probability of a conflict among droughts in the upper tail of the severity distribution. Elected city governments are relatively immune to drought-induced conflict, while those based on representation by burghers or guilds are not. These results suggest that local governments are key to mainta...
