Brian Beach

College of William and Mary - Department of Economics

Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

United States

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1.

Gridlock: Ethnic Diversity in Government and the Provision of Public Goods

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2015
Brian Beach and Daniel Jones
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public & International Affairs
Downloads 275 (239,460)
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Diversity, government, public good provision

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for Covid-19

NBER Working Paper No. w27673
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2023
Brian Beach, Karen Clay and Martin Hugo Saavedra
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Rutgers University
Downloads 146 (430,655)
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Losing by Less? Import Competition, Unemployment Insurance Generosity, and Crime

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Brian Beach and John Lopresti
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and College of William and Mary - Department of Economics
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Import Competition, Unemployment Insurance, Crime

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Mitigating the Effects of Low Birth Weight: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Adoptees

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2014
Brian Beach and Martin Hugo Saavedra
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Rutgers University
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Do Markets Reward Constitutional Reform? Lessons from America’s State Debt Crisis

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2015
Brian Beach
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics
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sovereign debt, sovereign default, constitutions, credibility

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Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales

NBER Working Paper No. w22553
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2023
Brian Beach, Werner Troesken and Nicola Tynan
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Dickinson College
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Minority Representation in Local Government

NBER Working Paper No. w25192
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Brian Beach, Daniel Jones, Tate Twinam and Randall Walsh
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Washington, Bothell and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship When Migration Matters

NBER Working Paper No. w23507
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2023
Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach and W. Walker Hanlon
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 38 (951,351)
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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition

NBER Working Paper No. w25752
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 15 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 14 May 2023
Brian Beach and W. Walker Hanlon
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w28563
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2023
Brian Beach
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics
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Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation

NBER Working Paper No. w20279
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 31 May 2023
Brian Beach, Joseph P. Ferrie, Martin Hugo Saavedra and Werner Troesken
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Department of Economics, Rutgers University and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Fetal Shock or Selection? The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Human Capital Development

NBER Working Paper No. w24725
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2023
Brian Beach, Joseph P. Ferrie and Martin Hugo Saavedra
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Rutgers University
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Historical Newspaper Data: A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17366
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Jun 2022
Brian Beach and W. Walker Hanlon
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Historical Newspapers