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Understanding soft commitment: evidence from a field experiment on recycling
Taking advantage of a card-scanning system that records individual, real-time data on the use of bio-waste sorting bins, we run a randomized field experiment to analyze the effectiveness of soft commitments in promoting ... -
A journey in the history of sovereign defaults on domestic law public debt - sovereign histories
This document contains our collection of ‘sovereign histories’ for the 74 domestic-law default episodes that we include in our database. Sovereign histories are meant to complement our database and the associated paper, ... -
Addressing oil spills and agricultural productivity. Evidence of pollution in Nigeria
This paper examines how the pollution generated by oil operations in Nigeria can affect agricultural total factor productivity. I analyze oil spills, which are the main ecological disaster in Nigeria and lead to major ... -
Profit sharing, interconnected autonomous teams, and employee productivity
Interconnected autonomous teams (IAT) reflect a human resources policy of organizing employees into a network of autonomous teams and allowing individuals to work on more than one of those teams. This paper studies how ... -
A journey in the history of sovereign defaults on domestic law public debt
We introduce a novel database on sovereign defaults that involve public debt instruments governed by domestic law. By systematically reviewing a large number of sources, we identify 132 default and restructuring events of ... -
Spatial inequality, civil conflict and cells: a dynamic spatial probit approach
This study examines the link between spatial income inequality and civil conflict in Africa. To that end we extend traditional empirical models of conflict to account for both endogenous and exogenous spatial interaction ... -
La investigación de la represión franquista 40 años después (1979-2020)
En este estudio se presenta un balance actualizado de las cifras sobre víctimas mortales de la represión durante la guerra civil y la posguerra a partir de una exhaustiva recopilación de datos publicados provincia a ... -
Wars, depression, and fascism: income inequality in Italy, 1900-1950
This paper documents new yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy from 1900 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables, we obtain the first comprehensive assessment of all major components of ... -
Provincial health inequalities in Spain since 1860
Using annual mortality rates at the provincial level for men and women, we construct a Gini index to estimate changes in regional health inequalities since 1860 in Spain. We find a long steady decline in health inequality ... -
A lesson from history? The 1918 influenza pandemic and the rise of Italian fascism: a cross-city quantitative and historical text qualitative analysis
Objectives: Evidence linking past experiences of worsening health and support for radical political views has generated concerns about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 ... -
Víctimas mortales de la represión en Navarra durante la guerra civil y el primer franquismo (1936-1948)
Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo del tejido social y de los investigadores e investigadoras ha legado un creciente conocimiento sobre la naturaleza, la evolución y la magnitud de las muertes represivas producidas ... -
The other halves of fascist Italy: income inequality from dynamic social tables, 1900-1950
This paper documents new, yearly estimates of overall income inequality for Italy, from the first industrial 'take-off' to the eve of the ‘Economic Miracle’, contributing both to the comparative literature on the evolution ... -
Did US business dynamism recover in the 2010s?
We provide evidence that both firm and establishment entry rates in the US have been increasing over the past decade, seemingly ending the secular decline observed over previous decades. However, the job-size of new ... -
The costs of hyperinflation: Germany 1923
I study the link between monetary policy and populism by looking at the hyperinflation in Germany in 1923, one of the worst spells of inflation in history, and the Nazi electoral boost in 1933. Contrary to received wisdom, ... -
A dynamic model of COVID-19: contagion and implications of isolation enforcement
We present a dynamic model that produces day-to-day changes in key variables due to the COVID-19 contagion: the number of ever infected people, currently infected, deaths, healed, and infected people who require hospitalization. ... -
La represión extrajudicial en Sartaguda: un balance cuantitativo
Este informe fue elaborado en el año 2019 a solicitud del ayuntamiento de Sartaguda, para ser presentado como prueba pericial en la querella que este ayuntamiento ha presentado en relación a los crímenes ... -
Vulneración de derechos humanos durante la Guerra Civil y la etapa franquista en Pamplona. Informe pericial elaborado en marzo de 2017
Este informe fue elaborado entre los años 2016 y 2017a solicitud del ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruña, para ser presentado como prueba pericial en la querella que este ayuntamiento presentóen relación a ... -
Informe técnico documental sobre los sucesos ocurridos en los Sanfermines de 1978. Informe elaborado en junio de 2018
Este informe fue elaborado en el año 2018 a solicitud del ayuntamiento de Pamplona-Iruña. El encargo realizado por el consistorio a la Universidad Pública de Navarra implicaba, en primer lugar, la elaboración ... -
COVID-19 pandemic and economic scenarios for Ontario
To study the efficacy of the public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we develop a model of the rich interactions between epidemiology and socioeconomic choices. Preferences feature a 'fear of death' that lead ... -
On staggered prices and optimal inflation
This paper computes the steady-state optimal rate of inflation assuming two different sticky-price specifications, Calvo (1983) and Taylor (1980), in a model with monopolistic competition. The optimal rate of inflation ...