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Fight Entropy: Disasters and religiosity
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The Global Environment and Economic Development. Has a new version of her working paper on disasters (mostly earthquakes) and religiosity:. Acts of God: Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts. Religiosity affects everything from fertility and labor force participation to health. But why are some societies more religious than others? Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sustainable Development at Columbia. Follow Fight Entropy by Email. Plot pol...
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Fight Entropy: Weekend Links
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The Global Environment and Economic Development. 1) Why does rabies still kill 60,000 people a year? 3) A "modularity" explanation of the Cambrian explosion. 4) Endogenous stratification on treatment. 5) Rainfall risk and religious membership. 6) International Space Station captures images of super-typhoon Maysak. 7) Chrome now has a Google Scholar Button add-in. 8) "If [Planet Labs] can get between 150 and 200 Doves in orbit, it will be able to take a daily snapshot of the entire planet.". Standard erro...
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Research | Anja Tolonen
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Extractive Industries, Production Shocks and Criminality: Evidence from a Middle-Income Country. Joint with Sebastian Axbard, and Jonas Poulsen). Local Industrial Shocks and Endogenous Gender Norms. Job market paper] [available upon request]. Does industrial development change gender norms? Video from the World Bank, November 2014. The session was chaired by Jeffrey Thindwa, World Bank Practice Manager, Governance. Discussants: Kristina Svenson,. USF and Amir Jina. Let’s Talk Development,. You are commen...