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Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
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This article investigates the long-term impact of historical missionary activity on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, missionaries were the first to invest in modern medicine in the region. On the other hand, Christianity influenced sexual... Read More about Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl (2020)
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We compare two cooperation mechanisms for consumer/producers of a public good: the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) and the Exchange-Matching-Lindahl (EML) solution, where each agent specifies her demand for and supply of the public good according to h... Read More about Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl.

Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China (2020)
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We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on fi... Read More about Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China.

Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities (2020)
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Recent high-profile scandals related to misuse of funding and donations have raised the demand for scrutiny over financial transparency and operational activities of non-profit organizations in developed countries. Our analysis challenges the common... Read More about Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities.

Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis (2020)
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We study career concerns in Italian academia. We mould our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalised in the multi-unit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria... Read More about Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis.

Testing, disclosure and approval (2020)
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Write better, publish better (2020)
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There is evidence that having more readable abstracts and introductions help authors get cited. I show that, in economics, there is also an effect of readability on the probability of publishing in a Top 5 journal (and in a higher-ranked journal in g... Read More about Write better, publish better.

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage (2020)
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