Travel Time Use Over Five Decades
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys in the U.S. to document trends in travel time uses.
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Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Bahrain
Bahrain is a textbook case study of how government officials can rely on repression to stay in power over decades.
Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry
How do domestic firms respond to the threat of foreign competition?This paper quantifies the threat of foreign competition by exploring news
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Argentina
Argentina has been a vibrant democracy for over thirty years, but the country continues to grapple with the legacy of violent repression. Government officials
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Thai Case Study: 2006-2014
The global press tells the story of Thailand as dialectic--a power struggle between two groups, the Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts, who have been at odds
At the Intersection of Cross‐Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
Malaysia is 8,402 mi. from Silicon Valley and has little in common with the locus of the Internet universe. Nonetheless, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Countries around the world use electoral quotas to ensure that underrepresented groups gain legislative representation. Despite the fact that electoral quotas
The EMG Distribution and Aggregate Trade Elasticities
When rm-level productivity is not assumed to be Pareto distributed, new trade models predict that micro-data such as sales distributions determine
At the Intersection of Cross-Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
Malaysia is 8,402 mi. from Silicon Valley and has little in common with the locus of the Internet universe. Nonetheless, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Sri Lanka Case Study
Sri Lanka has a long history of ethnic tensions among individuals and groups who identify by caste, religion, and clan.1 While Sri Lanka has been a democracy