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The natural environment is central to all aspects of life, but efforts to quantify its influence have been hindered by data availability and measurement constraints. To mitigate some of these challenges, we introduce a new prototype of a microdata infrastructure: the Census Environmental Impacts...
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Intensive agriculture and deep plowing resulted in top-soil erosion and dust storms during the 1930s. These effects have been shown to affect agricultural income and land values that persisted for years. Given the growing literature on the relevance of in-utero and early-life exposures, it is...
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …
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particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over the past 40 years. In doing so …-preserving compression in the overall pollution distribution and (2) changes that stem from a reordering of Black and White households within … the pollution distribution. We find a significant narrowing of the Black-White PM2.5 exposure gap over this time period …
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Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This study exploits the staggered installation of water...
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pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures--and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural …, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air pollution, leveraging …
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China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in … during the post globalization period (2003-2019) increased by 11.5% of the corresponding pre-globalization period (1984 … contrast, following globalization, the average aggregate domestic profitability of US firms remained flat, and firms employed …
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Trade policy is set by domestic political bargaining between globalists and protectionists, representing owners of factors specific to export and import-competing sectors respectively. Consistent with the post-Civil War Era of Restriction, protectionists implement high tariffs when status quo...
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We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals' preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain randomized information treatments. Each treatment provides a concise statement of economics research findings on how openness to trade...
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Innovation is a key driver of long run economic growth. Studying innovation requires a clear view of the characteristics and behavior of the individuals that create new ideas. A general lack of rich, large-scale data has constrained such analyses. We address this by introducing a new dataset...
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