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Basco Tang: JEH Samurai Bond data files (ICPSR 115411)

Released/updated on: 2020-02-17
This is the replication package for the paper "The samurai bond: credit supply, market access, and structural transformation in pre-war Japan" published in the Journal of Economic History. It contains the dataset (Stata format), do-file (Stata format), and documentation (PDF).
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Data and code for: "Mortality, Temperature and Public Health Provision: Evidence from Mexico" (ICPSR 125201)

Released/updated on: 2022-04-21
Time period: 1990-01-01--2017-12-31
We examine the impact of temperature on mortality in Mexico using daily data over the period 1998-2017 and find that 3.8 percent of deaths in Mexico are caused by suboptimal temperature (26,000 every year). However, 92 percent of weather-related deaths are induced by cold (<12°C) or mildly cold (12-20°C) days and only 2 percent by outstandingly hot days (>32°C). Furthermore, temperatures are twice more likely to kill people in the bottom half of the income distribution. Finally, we show causal evidence that the Seguro Popular, a universal healthcare policy, has saved at least 1,600 lives per year from cold weather since 2004.
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Data and Code for: "The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries" (ICPSR 204861)

Released/updated on: 2025-06-30
Time period: 2018-09-01--2019-07-01
This dataset comes from a RCT on civic education. The goal of the study is to examine the effects of the Active citizenship (ACT) program on students’ civic skills and democratic engagement as well as on teachers’ teaching practice. The program, which primarily consists in providing teachers with a 2-days training and with continuous guidance over the school year to help them implement a citizenship project in their classroom, was implemented in France, Greece and Spain in 2018-2019.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Financing Public Education when Agents have Retirement Concerns" (ICPSR 169521)

Released/updated on: 2022-10-17
Time period: 1985-01-01--2006-01-01
This is the replication package (database and stata .do file) for the paper 'Financing Public Education when Agents have Retirement Concerns', forthcoming at Economic Inquiry. 

Therein, we study, theoretically and empirically, the link between voters’ support for public education and pensions. We show that the (inter-generational) redistributive component of the retirement system creates a link between current spending on education and future pensions.

The empirical analysis uses repeated cross-country surveys to confirm the model predictions.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Social-Benefits Stigma and Subsequent Competitiveness" (ICPSR 217164)

Released/updated on: 2025-02-21
We conduct a laboratory experiment to explore how benefit-eligibility stigma drives subsequent decisions to enter competition. We induce a stigma associated with a low-status benefit and then introduce "plausible deniability'' to reduce this stigma by expanding benefit eligibility to a middle-status group. When newly-eligible individuals qualify for the benefit, their rate of entry into a subsequent and unrelated tournament is reduced by 17-20 percentage points compared to the treatment in which they do not qualify. A potential interpretation of our results would suggest expanding for certain government assistance programs may produce unintended consequences for the newly eligible.

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The elderly bias of the Spanish welfare state: 1958-2012 (ICPSR 209062)

Released/updated on: 2024-09-11
The Spanish welfare state has been described as strongly biased towards sustaining the elderly’s welfare, rather than children’s. We study the evolution of that bias since 1958 through National Transfer Accounts (NTA). NTA disentangle how people produce, consume and save along their lifecycle, and how resources move among generations through different mechanisms (families, markets and governments). We extend the available NTA (2000-2012) to the past. For 1980-1990, we provide new estimates based on Household Budget Surveys (HBS). For earlier periods without HBS microdata, we use other sources and propose new estimation methods. We show that Spanish social policies were biased towards the elderly since their early stages. The consequences of that bias were initially mitigated by the small size of the welfare state and the elderly’s low demographic share. Higher social expenditure and the ageing of Spanish society have turned such bias into a serious challenge for the country’s economy.
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Income inequality and export-oriented commercialisation in colonial Africa: evidence from six countries (ICPSR 194503)

Released/updated on: 2023-10-16
Time period: 1914-01-01--1969-12-31
Limited knowledge of African historical inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of inequality outcomes today and leads to a major omission in debates about global inequality. Economies in colonial Africa were characterized by a process of export-oriented commercialization. We hypothesize that this process itself, the capital intensity of the commodities produced, and the relative importance of European and Asian expatriates and settlers in the economy shaped heterogeneous inequality outcomes. We evaluate these hypotheses using 33 social tables from six predominately agricultural countries, between 1914 and 1969. Social tables capture income across the full distribution, aggregated in classes. We assess and improve the commensurability of the different social tables. We use different inequality metrics, and find that Gini and Theil coefficients and Inequality Extraction Ratios rose over time. Gini coefficients moved in conjunction with the real value of commodity exports per capita. Using Theil decompositions, we observe a trade-off between inequality among African classes on the one hand, and among non-Africans and between races, on the other. Whenever present, non-Africans indirectly captured a large share of the export profits. Inequality patterns towards the end of the period suggest that capital-intensive commodities were associated with higher levels of inequality in the agricultural sector.
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Intra- and inter-brain synchrony oscillations underlying social adjustment (ICPSR 183301)

Released/updated on: 2023-07-10
Humans naturally synchronize their behaviour to other people. However, although it happens almost automatically, the adjustment of behaviour and the conformity to others is a complex phenomenon whose neural mechanisms are still yet to be completely understood. The goal of the present experiment was to study the oscillatory synchronization mechanisms underlying the automatic dyadic convergence in an EEG hyperscanning experiment. 36 people performed a purely cooperative decision-making task in dyads in which they had to guess the correct position of a point in a line.  A reinforcement learning algorithm was used to model the expectancy of convergence among peers.  Intra- and inter-connectivity among electrodes was assessed using inter-site phase clustering (ISPC) in three main frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta) using a two-level Bayesian Mixed Modelling approach. Results showed two different oscillatory synchronization dynamics related to attention and executive functions in alpha and reinforcement learning tracked by theta. In addition, inter-brain synchrony was mainly driven by beta oscillations. These results provide initial evidence about the role of inter- and intra- oscillatory synchrony in behavioural adaptation induced by social conformity.  
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The Making of a National Currency: Spatial Transaction Costs and Money Market Integration in Spain (1825–1874) (ICPSR 111701)

Released/updated on: 2019-09-04
This article analyzes the integration of the Spanish money market in the nineteenth century. We use a Band-Threshold autoregression model of prices of bills-of-exchange in ten cities to measure market convergence and efficiency in 1825–1875. While price gaps generally decreased during the period, progress in efficiency was concentrated in a small group of cities. We suggest that convergence was associated to the reduction in transaction costs, which started well before the railways through improvements in roads and postal services. By contrast, the heterogeneous behavior of efficiency might be associated to economic geography changes and their effects on monetary leadership.

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Replication: The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550-1650 (ICPSR 117426)

Released/updated on: 2020-01-27
Geographic coverage: Toledo, Castille-La Mancha, Spain
Time period: 1550-01-01--1650-01-01
This is the data file and replication package for "The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550-1650", by Mauricio Drelichman and David Gonzalez Agudo. It is provided as a single MS Excel file containing the raw data as collected from the relevant archives, all secondary source data used in the article, and the relevant computation worksheets.
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Spanish households: Car insurance with deductibles (ICPSR 198961)

Released/updated on: 2024-03-18
Time period: 2019-01-01--2019-12-31
This databases is used to investigate the expected utility of Spanish households if they take out a refundable insurance that covers the deductible that must be assumed if a car accident occurs. Using data from the Spanish Survey of Household Finances and market data, this database provides novel empirical evidence on the relationship between wealth and level of risk aversion, as well as the effect of taking out a refundable insurance on the expected utility of households (Household Refundable Utility)
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Trade Costs and the Integration of British West Africa in the Global Economy, c. 1840-1940 (ICPSR 200621)

Released/updated on: 2024-04-14
Time period: 1843-01-01--1938-01-01
Despite the essential role of trade for African economies, in the extensive literature on the historical evolution of international trade costs, Africa is still missing. In this article, we contribute to filling this gap by (1) providing the first estimates of British West Africa's trade costs with Britain c. 1840-1940, by computing relative price gaps in a representative sample of African export and European import prices, and (2) analyzing the main determinants of trade costs trends, by regressing price gaps on measures of transport costs, market efficiency, and trade barriers. The results uncover a diverging pattern in African and global trade costs trends, which was not noticed in the previous literature. British West Africa experienced a reduction in its trade costs with Britain c. 1840-70, similar to the one we observe in other world areas, thanks to improvements in shipping technology and market efficiency. From the late 1870s, however, as colonial monopsonistic trading companies consolidated their control of African export markets, trade costs continued to decline in the rest of the world, but not in British West Africa. Consequently, from the late nineteenth century, trade for West Africa became relatively more expensive than for other world regions.