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Summer reading 2020: VoxEU and VoxDev roundup

July 13, 2020Economics No Comments
Labyrinth of Horta

Recent VoxEU and VoxDev articles and videos by Barcelona GSE researchers

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Education and the life expectancy gender gap

June 15, 2020Health Economics No Comments
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Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jimenéz-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló investigate whether education equally affects the life expectancy of women and men.

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What is the economic cost of coastal flooding?

June 1, 2020Environmental Economics 2 Comments

Dávid K. Nagy and co-authors evaluate the economic effects of permanent coastal inundation by considering both the spatial and temporal dimensions of this climate-related phenomenon.

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To stay or to go: When news coverage shapes behavior

May 18, 2020Political Economy No Comments
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Timothy Besley, Thiemo Fetzer, and Hannes Mueller use two novel datasets to separate the effect of an event at tourist destinations from the coverage of that event at the home countries of tourists.

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Birth subsidies and fertility: Evidence from Spain

May 5, 2020Economic Welfare Public Policy No Comments

Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová explore how a child benefit in Spain affected birth rates and abortions.

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Lessons from white elephants and concession contracts

April 20, 2020Industrial Organization Public Policy No Comments
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Juan-José Ganuza and Gerard Llobet argue that standard contracts do not provide incentives for firms to properly screen projects, resulting in the construction of unnecessary infrastructures (“white elephants”).

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