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Social Insurance and Conflict: Evidence from India | Thiemo René Fetzer
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Social Insurance and Conflict: Evidence from India. Posted on November 7, 2013. Can public employment schemes significantly affect the nature of the violence process? Can the state, by providing employment in times of need win the hearts and minds of its citizens and thus, expand its monopoly of power? This paper answers these two questions by studying the impact of the world’s largest public employment scheme on the labour market for insurgents. The third contribution is a methodological one. This i...
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Blog | Thiemo René Fetzer
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Land Conflict, Property Rights and Deforestation in Brasil. September 4, 2016. Did the weather affect the #Brexit vote? June 26, 2016. Correction For Spatial And Temporal Auto-Correlation In Panel Data: Using R To Estimate Spatial HAC Errors Per Conley. September 2, 2015. Mobility from Mobile Phones. November 12, 2014. Leveraging R for Job Openings for Economists. November 1, 2014. Leveraging R for Econ Job Market. October 23, 2014. Fracking in your neighborhood? Shale- Oil and Gas Economic Impact Map.
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Mobility from Mobile Phones | Thiemo René Fetzer
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Mobility from Mobile Phones. Posted on November 12, 2014. I have worked on big data in my work with QuBit in London. In my research. In any case, there is little economics literature that has worked with mobile phone use data so far. The two constraints are, first, getting the data in the first place and second, how to work with true “big data”. Dakar Region only small in size relative to rest of the country. Dakar Region and Mobile Phone Network Masts with overlayed .01 degree grid. I am an Assistant Pr...
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Fracking Growth | Thiemo René Fetzer
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Posted on March 28, 2014. Read the whole paper Fracking Growth here. INTERACTIVE SHALE ECONOMIC IMPACT EXLPLORER. Counties where shale resources are being extracted have seen increases in average incomes, jobs and wages ranging between 10% and 20%. Unemployment rates in fracking counties are 2.4 percentage points lower than in the rest of the United States. Each job created in the oil and gas sector generates anywhere between one and three jobs in other sectors. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy | Thiemo René Fetzer
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One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy. Posted on October 20, 2011. Max Weber defined a functioning state as a human community that (successfully) claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory . This does not apply to Somalia. In Somalia, the effective monopoly of power has not been with any form of state since 1991. It has been topping the list of the failed states index for the past five consecutive years (Foreign Policy 2012). Our rec...
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Software | Thiemo René Fetzer
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A simple pipeline to access SENNA NLP toolkit through R. March 22, 2016. Using R To Estimate Spatial HAC Errors Per Conley. September 2, 2015. Conley Spatial HAC standard errors for models with Fixed Effects. April 18, 2014. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Mixfolio by Graph Paper Press.
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Data | Thiemo René Fetzer
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GPCC Monthly Rainfall 1961-2010. GPCC (rdata – 200 MB). GPCC (dta – 400 MB zip). Acknowledge Schneider et al (2011). I am an Assistant Professor in Economics in the Economics Department at University of Warwick since August 2015. From August 2016 I will be visiting Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy. My work is mainly in Development Economics and Political Economy. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Mixfolio by Graph Paper Press.
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Microeconomic Principles: Features of Capitalist economics: trade and specialization, money and capital.
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Thursday, 6 August 2009. Features of Capitalist economics: trade and specialization, money and capital. This article presents the three distinct features of any capitalist economy. Furthermore it explains the role of government in capitalist economies, which can be considered to be either fiscal policy or monetary policy. Specialization occurs, when people and countries concentrate their efforts. Individuals and countries then voluntarily trade. Capital is major factor of production; land and labor also ...
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Development Economics: Microenterprises and the Problem of Scale
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Dienstag, 4. August 2009. Microenterprises and the Problem of Scale. Banerjee and Duflo, in their paper, "The Economic Lives of the Poor" for which I wrote a small summary. Adress the problem of a lack of scale of microenterprises. This problem essentially means that many microenterprises operate at such a small scale, that they actually are not efficient. In microeconomic terms, efficiency is reached if average unit costs are minimized. Many of these businesses are probably operating at too small a.
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