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All Clear for Takeoff : Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization
Howell, Sabrina T.; Jang, Yeejin; Kim, Hyeik; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
airport performance along a rich array of dimensions such as passengers per flight, total passengers, number of routes, number … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …. These effects are largest when there is a competing airport nearby. Finally, we show that outright ownership rather than …
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Who Benefits From The Export-Import Bank Aid?
Benmelech, Efraim; Monteiro, Joao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effectiveness of government aid to exporters by exploring an exogenous shock that affected the ability of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) to provide aid to U.S. exporters through loan guarantees to importers. We focus on Boeing, the largest individual recipient of...
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Regulatory Arbitrage or Random Errors? Implications of Race Prediction Algorithms in Fair Lending Analysis
Greenwald, Daniel; Howell, Sabrina T.; Li, Cangyuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
When race is not directly observed, regulators and analysts commonly predict it using algorithms based on last name and address. In small business lending--where regulators assess fair lending law compliance using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) algorithm--we document large...
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Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data : The Census Tree Project
Buckles, Kasey S.; Haws, Adrian; Price, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940. These high-quality links allow researchers in the social sciences and other disciplines to construct a...
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