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Quantitative Economic History

2 items

Roots of Cultural Diversity

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Galor, Oded, Klemp, Marc, Wainstock, Daniel C. · 2024-11

Galor, Klemp and Wainstock link the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration distance to present-day cultural diversity in folklore, music and social norms across ethnic groups.

Engines of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations

NEP-HPE RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series Oded Galor · 2026-06

Galor's commentary on the 2025 Nobel laureates situates Aghion-Howitt's creative destruction and Mokyr's culture-of-growth account of the Industrial Revolution within the long-run development literature.

Causal Inference & Applied Microeconometrics

4 items

Sharing the Burden: The Impacts of Pharmacy Sector Reforms on the Labor Market for Pharmacists in Portugal

NBER David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Pedro Luis Silva · August 2026

Card, Cardoso and Silva exploit Portugal's 2010 pharmacy-reimbursement reforms to trace how generic substitution and price caps reshaped pharmacists' wages and employment.

How did empirical economic research improve over the last decades: Recent trends and prospects

NEP-HPE I4R Discussion Paper Series Brodeur, Abel, Bruns, Stephan B., Herwartz, Helmut, Islam, Chris-Gabriel · 2026

Brodeur, Bruns, Herwartz and Islam text-mine 578,000 statistical tests across 3,746 papers (1998-2019) to track how the credibility revolution and open-science norms changed empirical practice.

Taxing Labor: Firm R&D, Automation and the Labor Share

NEP-PBE RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg, Ragnhild C. Schreiner · 2026-07

Exploits an EU-mandated Norwegian payroll-tax reform to show firms facing bigger tax hikes cut employment but raised R&D and automation, lowering the labor share even after the tax was later reversed.

Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration

NEP-PBE IZA Discussion Papers Baumgartner, Erick, Corbi, Raphael, Narita, Renata · 2026-07

Uses the staggered rollout of a Brazilian payroll-tax cut with matched employer-employee data to find a 5% employment gain concentrated in less concentrated labor markets.

Institutional & Political Economy

5 items

Detecting Critical Junctures as They Unfold: Foundations, Measurement, and Applications from 120 Years of Reporting

NEP-GRO CESifo Working Paper Series Michael J. Callen, Gregory Levy, Saipremnath Muthukumaran, Jonathan Weigel, Noam Yuchtman · 2026

Callen, Levy, Weigel and coauthors mine 120 years of news reporting to detect institutional 'critical junctures' as they unfold rather than only in hindsight.

Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Ma, Debin, Rubin, Jared · 2024-10

Ma and Rubin frame the divergent 19th-century modernization paths of Meiji Japan and Qing China around ideology and the contrast between decentralized feudal and centralized bureaucratic political regimes.

Economic Growth and Imperialism

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Corneo, Giacomo · 2024-11

Corneo models when militarily dominant states abandon imperialism, driven by a political elite that cares about self-image as safety costs eventually outrun material gains.

The Fiscal Contract up Close: Experimental Evidence from Mexico City

NEP-PBE CEPR Discussion Papers Brockmeyer, Anne, Garfias, Francisco, Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos · 2024-08

state capacity

A randomized Mexico City infrastructure investment finds no tax-compliance dividend from improved local amenities, even when the benefit link is made salient — a null result for the fiscal-contract theory of state capacity.

Populism and academic freedom

PubChoice Rui Silva · 2026-08-30

A quasi-experimental Public Choice study finds academic freedom declines significantly under populist governments.

Sports Economics

4 items

Switching for success? Institutional affiliation in cheerleading and competitive performance

NEP-SPO Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics Staubach, Rebecca · 2026

A difference-in-differences design on German cheerleading squads that switched governing federations tests whether institutional affiliation itself moves competitive performance.

The Atlantic Axis of Football Dominance: An Empirical investigation of FIFA World Cup Winners.

NEP-SPO SocArXiv Sandambi, Nerhum · 2026-08-18

Argues, from a count of World Cup winners, that historically dominant European football nations' success tracks their general economic strength.

Ranking-based competitive balance measures in Formula One

NEP-SPO Papers D\'ora Gr\'eta Petr\'oczy, L\'aszl\'o Csat\'o · 2026-07

Proposes weighted-distance competitive-balance measures for Formula One and finds the sport's competitiveness trend is largely robust to how position changes are weighted.

The Best Are Always the Best: COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency and the Dispersion of Olympic Medal Outcomes

NEP-SPO Papers Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohm\'e · 2026-08

Using COVID-19 lockdown stringency as a natural shock, finds medal outcomes for non-dominant Olympic nations grew far more dispersed between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, mainly in men's events.

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