The effects of TV content on entrepreneurship: Evidence from German unification

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29 points·danboarder··8 comments

Can’t read the whole paper but from the abstract, this sounds like an obvious case of correlation != causation. It’s possible whatever caused those regions to have access to western TV also helped foster businesses later, such as easy access to west German hubs or train lines or similar. In fact, their claim that the effects last through generations further weakens their argument since other East German regions would’ve gotten the same TV after the 90’s and should have caught up by now. Instead it sounds like something else is helping the original regions maintain their dominance.

try this one? : https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/WP_30002015002000.pdf

Different topic, but probably more interesting to HN. This models Federal procurement to try and relate high-tech and low-tech choices to innovation.

One thing not covered is that its outliers are the states with large missile batteries: MT, ND, WY and AK. While NE and CO have missiles, those are controlled from Cheyanne.

this paper emphasizes civilian market categories, not Defense Security Military spending

Nice - another Elsevier paywall-ed article ...

This is probably the working paper version: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/168336/1/896597164.p...

It's pretty unusual in economics to not circulate your article publicly. The published version is usually just a more boring version of the working paper. (I didn't compare to the published version here, so I don't know if it's the case.)

Unfortunately, Sci-Hub doesn't have the requested document: 10.1016/j.jce.2023.01.008

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