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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...

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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over …

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Sample Attrition Bias in Randomized Experiments : A Tale of Two Surveys

Behaghel, Luc - 2009

The randomized trial literature has helped to renew the fields of microeconometric policy evaluation by emphasizing identification issues raised by endogenous program participation. Measurement and attrition issues have perhaps received less attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of...

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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Gobillon, Laurent - 2017

We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...

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The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2016

housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …

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Homeownership of Immigrants in France : Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Gobillon, Laurent - 2015

We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how …

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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent - 2013

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …

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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Gobillon, Laurent - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … rate gap in both France and the US, amounting to 17% to 25% of the relative gap in France and about 10% in the US. Among … these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …

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