Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
This paper examines the effects of birth town migration networks on location decisions. We study over one million long-run location decisions made during........
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Governance Spillovers of Labour Provisions in Free Trade Agreements
Most people know that governments such as the US, EU, and Canada use labour rights provisions in trade agreements to improve labour rights. They believe...
Repression, Civil Conflict, And Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is a repressive regime, which Nursultan Nazarbayev has ruled since 1991 (CIA: 2017). Some analysts believe his approach to repression explains his...
The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1960- 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South........
Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities
Economic agents are typically connected to others in multiple network relationships, and the architecture of one network could be shaped by connections in other.......
China’s One Belt One Road Strategy: The New Financial Institutions and India’s Options
The revival of ancient Silk Road strategy into the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Strategy or the new Silk Road project signals China’s ambitious approach to global..........
Repression, Civil Conflict, And Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Turkey
Turkey’s geo-political position between traditional Eastern and Western powers has made its political situation complicated. Moreover, like many countries,
Personal Privacy of HMDA in a World of Big Data
When the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act was passed in 1975, it required selected depository institutions to report limited data from mortgage applications.........
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Honduras
In many of our case studies, governments use repression to maintain power and to prevent others from obtaining power. But in Honduras, repression need......
Taming the Tiger: Peaceful and Violent Protest and the Repressive Responses of Government
Herein, we examine the kinds of protest that leaders see as threatening to their ability to retain political power. Then, we focus on how leaders respond to..