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Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past (2021)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., Fraja, G. D., & Vuri, D. (2021). Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past. Economics and Human Biology, 42, Article 101002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101002

This paper studies the effect of passive smoking on child development. We use data from a time when the adverse effects of smoking on health were not known and when tobacco was not an inferior good. This allows us to disentangle the effect on foetuse... Read More about Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past.

Commodity prices and banking crises (2021)
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Eberhardt, M., & Presbitero, A. F. (2021). Commodity prices and banking crises. Journal of International Economics, 131, Article 103474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103474

Commodity prices are one of the most important drivers of output fluctuations in developing countries. We show that a major channel through which commodity price movements can affect the real economy is through their effect on banks' balance sheets a... Read More about Commodity prices and banking crises.

Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain (2021)
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García-Vega, M., Kneller, R., & Stiebale, J. (2021). Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain. Research Policy, 50(5), Article 104213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104213

We analyze the effect of a labor market reform on firms' product innovation. The reform , which amounts to a natural experiment, differentially reduced firing costs for some firms, thereby lowering adjustment costs in the presence of demand uncertain... Read More about Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain.

Impulse response analysis in conditional quantile models with an application to monetary policy (2021)
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Lee, D. J., Kim, T.-H., & Mizen, P. (2021). Impulse response analysis in conditional quantile models with an application to monetary policy. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, Article 104102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2021.104102

This paper presents a new method to analyze the effect of shocks on time series using a quantile impulse response function (QIRF). While conventional impulse response analysis is restricted to evaluation using the conditional mean function, here, we... Read More about Impulse response analysis in conditional quantile models with an application to monetary policy.

Organization of R&D outsourcing: Asymmetric cross‐effects between locations (2021)
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García-Vega, M., & Huergo, E. (2021). Organization of R&D outsourcing: Asymmetric cross‐effects between locations. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 30, 503-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12422

When companies acquire R&D from external national providers, would they benefit if they also acquired knowledge from foreign providers? And the other way around? These questions are important for the organization of firm knowledge-based activies and... Read More about Organization of R&D outsourcing: Asymmetric cross‐effects between locations.

Wikipedia matters (2021)
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Hinnosaar, M., Hinnosaar, T., Kummer, M., & Slivko, O. (2021). Wikipedia matters. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 32(3), 657-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12421

We document a causal impact of online user-generated information on real-world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional content on Wikipedia pages about cities affects tourists' choices of... Read More about Wikipedia matters.

Rules versus norms: How formal and informal institutions shape judicial sentencing cycles (2021)
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Dippel, C., & Poyker, M. (2021). Rules versus norms: How formal and informal institutions shape judicial sentencing cycles. Journal of Comparative Economics, 49(3), 645-659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2021.02.003

Existing research on electoral sentencing cycles consistently finds that elected judges levy longer sentences when they are up for re-election. However, this research finding had previously drawn exclusively on data from four states. Using newly coll... Read More about Rules versus norms: How formal and informal institutions shape judicial sentencing cycles.

African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review (2021)
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Isaac, A., Shayanowako, T., Morrissey, O., Tanzi, A., Muchuweti, M., Mendiondo, G. M., Mayes, S., Modi, A. T., Mabhaudhi, T., & Durazzo, A. (2021). African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review. Sustainability, 13(5), Article 2896. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052896

The economic potential of African leafy vegetables (ALVs) remains obscured by a poorly developed value chain. This scoping review assembled and examined scattered knowledge generated on ALVs across southern Africa, focusing on production, processing,... Read More about African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review.

Dynamic Persuasion with Outside Information (2021)
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Bizzotto, J., Rüdiger, J., & Vigier, A. (2021). Dynamic Persuasion with Outside Information. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(1), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20180141

A principal seeks to persuade an agent to accept an offer of uncertain value before a deadline expires. The principal can generate information, but exerts no control over exogenous outside information. The combined effect of the deadline and outside... Read More about Dynamic Persuasion with Outside Information.

Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa (2021)
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Ananyev, M., & Poyker, M. (2021). Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 184, 359-374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.003

We argue that colonial Christian missions had a long-term impact on anti-gay attitudes in Africa. We use a geo-coded representative survey of African countries and the location of historical Christian missions to estimate a significant and economical... Read More about Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa.