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1by Di Tella, Rafael MacCulloch, Robert Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (Winter 2006)“...Happiness research is based on the idea that it is fruitful to study empirical measures of individual welfare. The most common is the answer to a simple...”
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2“...We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the rearrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from...”
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3“...An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in...”
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4by Rafael Di Tella Ricardo Perez-Truglia Andres Babino Mariano Sigman Published in The American economic review (01.11.2015)“...We present results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that recipients can take a side payment in exchange for accepting a reduction in the...”
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5by Rafael Di Tella Ignacio Franceschelli Published in American economic journal. Applied economics (01.10.2011)“...We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front page during the period 1998-2007...”
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7by Rafael Di Tella Robert J. MacCulloch Andrew J. Oswald Published in The review of economics and statistics (01.11.2003)“...We show that macroeconomic movements have strong effects on the happiness of nations. First, we find that there are clear microeconomic patterns in the...”
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8“...We provide an example that shows that in the Alesina and Angeletos (2005) model one can obtain multiplicity even if luck plays no role in the economy. Thus, it...”
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12“...We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD...”
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14“...Corrupt agents (officials or gangsters) exact money from firms. Corruption affects the number of firms in a free‐entry equilibrium. The degree of deep...”
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15“...We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984–1990. The data are based on surveys of business people...”
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16“...We study a model in which agents experience anger when they see a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for the welfare of its clients (i.e., altruism)...”
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17“...There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered when investigating levels of consumption that appear to be hard to justify. The...”
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19“...We present a model where agents can inflate the cost of goods needed to start an investment project and inflation variability increases monitoring costs. We...”