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2022/425: Income-based affirmative action in college admissions: Luiz Brotherhood, Bernard Herskovic and Joao Ramos
2022/424: Understanding the decline of interpersonal violence in the ancient middle east Abstract: How did human societies succeed in reducing interpersonal violence, a precondition to achieve security and prosperity? Given that homicide records are only available for the more recent period, much of human history remains virtually outside our purview. To fill this gap, a literature intersecting economics, archaeology, and anthropology has devised reliable methods for studying traumas deliberately inflicted in human skeletal remains. In this paper we reconstruct the early history of conflict by exploiting a novel dataset on weapon-related wounds from skeletons excavated across the Middle East, spanning the whole pre-Classical period (ca. 8,000-400 BCE). By documenting when and how ancient Middle Eastern populations managed to reduce intersocietal violence and achieve remarkable levels of development, we broaden historical perspectives on the structural factors driving human conflict: Giacomo Benati, Joerg Baten and Arkadiusz Soltysiak
2022/423: Services trade contribution on global income generation (2000 - 2014) Abstract: This paper investigates the contribution of services trade to the variation of global income generation for the period of 2000 to 2014, applying a structural decomposition analysis in a global multi-regional input-output framework. We disentangle impacts of determinants of this variation for 56 sectors (of which, 29 are services) on a global level and on seven world regions, considering primary inputs, technology, components of final demand (private consumption, government expenditures and investment), trade and trade structure of both intermediate inputs and final products as drivers. Empirical findings suggest that overall, intermediate trade of services contributed to 5,38% of global income generation while final trade of services to 4,56% for the 15 years-period analyzed. This significant contribution seems to be explained mainly through the increase of demand of services as the negative effect of the structure of trade suggests that per unit of services traded, the valueâ€“added generated decreased over this period. At the sectoral level, wholesale trade, the financial sector, administrative and support services, legal and accounting services along with land transport appear to be the most important contributors of the services sectors through trade. Despite having northern European countries along with the BRIIC countries and the northern American ones as the most important contributors through services trade, when looking at the share of contribution of services trade of different groups relative to only their own total contribution, the eastern European countries is the group that makes it to the top: Michel Lioussis and MÃ²nica Serrano
2022/422: Key players in bullying networks: Ata Atay, Ana Mauleon, Simon Schopohl and Vincent Vannetelbosch
2022/421: Fertility and migration: Arianna Garofalo
2022/420: Income-based scholarships and access to higher education: Guilherme Strifezzi Leal and Ã lvaro Choi
2022/419: Axioms for the optimal stable rules and fair-division rules in a multiple-partners job market: Gerard DomÃ¨nech Gironell and Marina NÃºÃ±ez Oliva
2022/418: When lawmakers met progressives. Debating the American federal income tax of 1894: Javier San Julian Arrupe
2022/417: Frequent audits and honest audits: Jacopo Bizzotto and Alessandro De Chiara
2021/415: Do search engines increase concentration in media markets?: Joan Calzada, Nestor Duch-Brown and Ricard Gil
2021/414: Structural change and the income of nations: Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso DÃez-Minguela, Alicia GÃ³mez-Tello, Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat
2021/413: Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850-2000: Sergio Espuelas
2021/412: Structural change and the income of nations: Cynthia Armas and Fernando SÃ¡nchez-Losada
2021/411: Racial quotas in higher education and pre-college academic performance: Evidence from Brazil: Guilherme Strifezzi Leal and Ã lvaro Choi
2021/410: A dynamic theory of regulatory capture: Alessandro De Chiara and Marco Schwarz
2021/409: Democracy and primary education spending in Spain, 1902-22: Paola Azar and Sergio Espuelas
2021/408: Segregation and preferences for redistribution: Dilara Tosu and Montserrat Vilalta-BufÃ
2021/407: Entrepreneurship, growth and productivity with bubbles: Lise Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard, Xavier Raurich and Thomas Seegmuller
2021/406: Health information and lifestyle behaviours: the impact of a diabetes diagnosis: Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores JimÃ©nez-Rubio and Eugenio Zucchelli
2021/405: The hidden cost of bananas: pesticide effects on newbornsâ€™ health: Joan Calzada, Meritxell Gisbert and Bernard Moscoso
2020/404: The Impact of ICT on Working from Home: Evidence from EU Countries: Vahagn Jerbashian and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi
2020/403: Stable cores in information graph games: Marina Núñez and Juan Vidal-Puga
2020/402: Continuous-time Optimal Pension Indexing in Pay-as-You-Go Systems: Oriol Roch
2020/401: Introducing media in a model of electoral competition with candidate quality: Gerard Domènech i Gironell
2020/400: The Cycle of Rents: a Model of Rational Bull-and-Bear Cycles in an Efficient Market: Eduard Gracia Rodríguez
2020/399: Colonizer Identity and Trade in Africa: Were the British More Favourable to Free Trade?: Federico Tadei
2019/398: On Convexity in Games with Externalities: José María Alsonso-Maijide, Mikel Álvarez-Mozos, María Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro and Andrés Jiménez-Losada
2019/397: Mergers, branch consolidation and financial exclusion in the US bank market: Joan Calzada, Xavier Fageda and Fernando Martínez-Santos
2019/396: Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast: Guido Alfani and Federico Tadei
2019/395: Assortative multisided assignment games. The extreme core points: F.Javier Martínez de Albéniz, Carlos Rafels and Neus Ybern
2019/394: Agricultural Composition and Labor Productivity: Cesar Blanco and Xavier Raurich
2019/393: Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations: Vahagn Jerbashian
2019/392: Firms' ownership, employees' altruism, and competition: Ester Manna
2019/391: Over-education and childcare time: Aleksander Kucel and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi
2019/390: Corruption and the Regulation of Innovation: Alessandro De Chiara and Ester Manna
2019/389: Socioeconomic burden of mental disorders in Spain 2006-2017: Alexandrina Stoyanova and Jaime Pinilla Domínguez
2019/388: A new order on embedded coalitions: Properties and applications: José Mª Alonso-Meijide, Mikel Álvarez-Mozos, Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro Mª and Andrés Jiménez-Losada
2019/387: Platform Price Parity Clauses and Segmentation: Joan Calzada, Ester Manna and Andrea Mantovani
2018/386: The nucleolus of the assignment game. Structure of the family: Javier Martínez-de-Albéniz, Carlos Rafels and Neus Ybern
2018/385: Spain and the classical gold standard.Short-And long-Term analyses: Alba Roldan
2018/384: A difficult consensus: the making of the Spanish welfare state: Sergio Espuelas
2018/383: Strategic investment decisions under the nuclear power debate in Belgium: Julia de Frutos Cachorro, Gwen Willeghems and Jeroen Buysse
2018/382: Uncontrolled diabetes and health care utilisation: a bivariate Latent Markov model approach: Joan Gil, Paolo Li Donni and Eugenio Zucchelli
2018/381: Who becomes an entrepreneur? The role of ability, education, and sector choice: Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi, Aleksander Kucel and Giovanni Giusti
2018/380: Quality Polarization and International Trade: Till Ferdinand Hollstein and Kristian Estevez
2018/379: The family of lattice structure values for games with externalities: José Mª Alonso-Meijide, Mikel Álvarez-Mozos, Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro Mª and Andrés Jiménez-Losada
2018/378: Valuation monotonicity, fairness and stability in assignment problems: René van den Brink, Marina Núñez and Francisco Robles
2018/377: Tele-Communications 2.0: The Age of the Internet: Vahagn Jerbashian and Anna Kochanova
2018/376: Solving Becker's assortative assignments and extensions: Javier Martínez-de-Albéniz, Carlos Rafels and Neus Ybern

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