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On the tradeoff between military and social spending
Frederiksen et al (1994) investigated whether, in Pakistan, there was a tradeoff between government spending on defense and other...
Filippos Papasavvas
Dec 25, 2024


On measuring energy poverty
Bardazzi et al (2023) argue that the complex nature of energy poverty prevents it from being captured by a single variable. For this...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 4, 2024


Who is most at risk of homelessness in the UK?
Bramley and Fitzpatrick (2018) investigate the impact of different factors in driving people to homelessness in the UK, and they refute...
Filippos Papasavvas
Apr 2, 2023


The role of foreign powers in the Greek Civil War
Iatrides and Rizopoulos (2000) argue that the communists’ defeat in the Greek Civil War (1942-1949) was generally the result of the...
Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 13, 2023


Bombed into Communists: US war in Vietnam
Dell and Querubin’s paper 'Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention' (2016) finds evidence from the Vietnam War that a strategy aimed...
Jing-Yuan Deng
Apr 24, 2022


How will the West punish Russia for invading Ukraine?
In a policy note from January 2022, prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, a...
Swaantje Marten
Mar 1, 2022


On the origins of (de)regulation
Starting in the 1970s, neoliberalism and deregulation began to rear their head, leading to the rollback of government under Thatcherism...
Sean Hays
Feb 5, 2022


Have minimum wage increases raised US unemployment historically?
In their study, Cengiz et al. (2019) investigate whether changes in the US minimum wage from 1979 to 2016 affected the domestic...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022


Income taxes and migration responses: a complex relationship
The Kleven, Landais, Muñoz, and Stantcheva paper (2019) reviews the growing economic literature on the effects of income taxation on...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


Universal Basic Income or Targeted Income Transfers?
Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken (2018) explore the trade-offs associated with universal basic income and targeted income transfers as a...
Sandra Loayza Guzman
Feb 5, 2022


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