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Every year for over half a century, the US opinion pollsters Gallup have asked Americans to say which person they most admire. Alan Manning and Amar Shanghavi consider what their answers reveal about how public attitudes...Read more...
Alan Manning and Amar Shanghavi
30 July 2015
Since the 1940s Gallup has, every December, asked Americans about the living man and woman they most admire. This paper documents the way in which the types of people who are admired has changed and argues that the respo...Read more...
18 December 2014
A rolling blackout in Colombia in the early 1990s led to a rise in unplanned births, according to research by Amar Shanghavi and colleagues. What?s more, young women who became mothers after the blackout had worse outcom...Read more...
Thiemo Fetzer, Oliver Pardo and Amar Shanghavi
10 December 2013
This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus, generate ?mini baby booms?. We study a period of extensive power rationing in Colombia that lasted for most ...Read more...
18 November 2013