Search Results - "Rafael Di Tella"

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Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

by 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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Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

by Di Tella, Rafael Schargrodsky, Ernesto Published in The Journal of political economy (01.02.2013)

“...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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Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others' Altruism

by Di Tella, Rafael Perez-Truglia, Ricardo Babino, Andres Sigman, Mariano 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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Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces After a Terrorist Attack

by Di Tella, Rafael Schargrodsky, Ernesto Published in The American economic review (01.03.2004)

“...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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Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

by Tella, Rafael Di Franceschelli, Ignacio 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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The Macroeconomics of Happiness

by Tella, Rafael Di MacCulloch, Robert J Oswald, Andrew J 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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Rents, Competition, and Corruption

by Ades, Alberto Di Tella, Rafael Published in The American economic review (01.09.1999)

“...A survey was conducted on the cause of corruption using the corruption data indices of Business International Corp. Results showed that countries with higher...”

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Fairness and Redistribution: Comment

by Di Tella, Rafael Dubra, Juan Published in The American economic review (01.02.2013)

“...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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Partisan Social Happiness

by Di Tella, Rafael MacCulloch, Robert Published in The Review of economic studies (01.04.2005)

“...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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The consequences of labor market flexibility: Panel evidence based on survey data

by Di Tella, Rafael MacCulloch, Robert Published in European economic review (2005)

“...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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Anger and Regulation

by Di Tella, Rafael Dubra, Juan Published in The Scandinavian journal of economics (01.07.2014)

“...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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Does Competition Kill Corruption?

by Bliss, Christopher Tella, Rafael Di Published in The Journal of political economy (01.10.1997)

“...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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Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device
Submitted: 24 June 2005 Accepted: 29 June 2007

by Tella, Rafael Di Weinschelbaum, Federico Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.10.2008)

“...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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Labour Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

by Di Tella, Rafael Rodrik, Dani Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.05.2020)

“...Abstract We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labour-market shocks. We consider: technological...”

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