How Does Human Capital Affect Investing? Evidence from University Endowments

How Does Social Capital Affect Retweets?

In Twitter, a retweet happens when a user copies another user's tweet, making it clear that the content is someone else's, and is a common way to share information. This paper explores user’s perceptions of the way social capital influences retweet practices. We discuss how Twitter users perceive values and how they create benefits for the social network and themselves from three points of view...

Does Competition Affect Evolutionary Dynamics? Evidence from a Collegiate University

Does Human Capital Affect Rural Economic Growth? Evidence from the South

How does Political Violence Affect Currency Substitution? Evidence from Egypt

In this paper we estimate a time-series model of the financial asset portfolio shares in Egypt, distinguishing between assets of varying degrees of liquidity and between domestic currency and foreign currency deposits. While financial liberalization and financial stability are found to have encouraged domestic residents to increase the share of their portfolio composed of domestic currency asse...

How Does Communal HIV/AIDS Affect Fertility? Evidence from Malawi

Recently there has been a surge in interest on how HIV/AIDS affects fertility in countries hit by the disease. In this study, the effect of communal HIV/AIDS on fertility in rural Malawi is estimated using individual data from the 2004 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey on fertility and the ideal number of children. The survey includes individual HIV status, making it possible to distinguish ...