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Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress Responses
(Elsevier BV, 2007-01)Background The classic conception of stress involves undifferentiated negative affect and corresponding biological reactivity. The present study hypothesized a new conception that disaggregates stress into emotion-specific, ... -
Facilitating learning and discovery-oriented industrial policy in Albania
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-03)Industrial policy initiatives demand a lot of knowledge from policymakers. Knowledge is often limited, however, especially when policies emerge from top-down technical experts or outsiders with limited contextual experience. ... -
Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)We analyze employment and capital adjustments using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey. We estimate adjustment functions for capital and labor as a non-linear function of the gaps between desired and ... -
A Fair and Feasible Formula for the Allocation of CARES Act COVID‐19 Relief Funds to American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Governments
Title V of the CARES Act requires that the Act’s funds earmarked for tribal governments be released immediately and that they be used for actions taken to respond to the COVID‐19 pandemic. These may include costs incurred ... -
Fanning the Flames: The News Media’s Role in the Rise of Negativity in Presidential Campaigns
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2010-02)The rise of negativity in presidential campaigns is well documented.1 Few doubt that attacks ads are more common in campaigns today than just 25 years ago. The typical assumption is that this negativity is a product of ... -
A Fatal Distraction from Federalism: Religious Conflict in Rakhine
(Harvard University, 2015-06)The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the current socioeconomic conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine State and to evaluate the prospects of accelerating economic development as a way of reducing tensions ... -
The Fate of an Engineered Planet
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013)Solar engineering and other exceptionally ambitious new technologies to deal with the reality of rising global temperatures come riddled with uncertainties. To illustrate how complex the problem is and what kind of challenges ... -
The Fed's Tapering Talk: A Short Statement's Long Impact on Indonesia
(Harvard University, 2016-06)In this paper, Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri, who was Indonesia’s Minister of Finance during the Taper Tantrum (TT) period, analyzes the response to the TT of the five hardest-hit countries, dubbed the “Fragile Five” (Brazil, ... -
Federal COVID‐19 Response Funding for Tribal Governments: Lessons from the CARES Act
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2020)The federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic has played out in varied ways over the past several months. For Native nations, the CARES Act (i.e., the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) has been the most ... -
Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: Extending the Appraisal-Tendency Framework
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)This article presents the Appraisal Tendency Framework (ATF) (Lerner & Keltner, 2000, 2001; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006) as a basis for predicting the influence of specific emotions on consumer decision making. In particular, ... -
Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Data on 2,288 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are deployed to study how off-farm female employment affects fertility. Such employment reduces a married woman’s actual number of children by ... -
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-10)Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not exploited ... -
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Co-Authors in Economics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)We explore the phenomenon of co-authorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most two economist co-authors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have three economist co-authors who ... -
Field experiments on solar geoengineering: report of a workshop exploring a representative research portfolio
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2014)We summarize a portfolio of possible field experiments on solar radiation management (SRM) and related technologies. The portfolio is intended to support analysis of potential field research related to SRM including ... -
Fighting the “Threat from Within”: France and Its Counter-Radicalization Strategy
(LediPublishing, 2018)This chapter discusses French efforts to counter extremism and radicalization. It focuses on ongoing social, political, and legal debates in France, and highlights policies and programs to prevent radicalization among ... -
Final Recommendations of the International Panel on ASGISA
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-05)As part of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGI-SA), the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa convened an international panel of economists through Harvard's Center for International Development. ... -
Financial Competition and Coexistence in a Bipolar World: Building an Effective U.S. Strategy for Engagement with China
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)This paper explores ways in which the United States might shape the structure and terms of its financial engagement with China more effectively. The recommended policies envision international institutions, payment systems ... -
Financial Institutions, Financial Contagion, and Financial Crises
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-07)This paper endogenizes financial contagion and financial crises from financial institutions. We show that financial crises can emanate from financial institutions which generate soft-budget constraints (SBC). The prevailing ... -
Financial Mergers and Their Consequences
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)This paper, written for a Columbia Law School - American Bar Association conference, analyzes the massive merger wave that has led to substantially increased concentration of banking activity in the United States. One ...