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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using 3,000 verbs from around 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the employment share...

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Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation

Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The reason is that cities attract the most productive agents, select the best of them, and make the selected ones even more productive via various agglomeration economies. This paper provides a...

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Urbanization and Structural Transformation

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on urbanization using sub-county data for the United States from 1880-2000 and …

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The Dynamics of City Formation: Finance and Governance

Henderson, J Vernon; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

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A General Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late 19th Century

Rosenberg, Nathan; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine, played in the intertwined processes of industrialization and urbanization …

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Does Misinformation Demobilize the Electorate? Measuring the Impact of Alleged 'Robocalls' in the 2011 Canadian Election

Cornwall, Tom; Kessler, Anke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The paper presents evidence on the effect of voter demobilization in the context of the Canadian 2011 federal election. Voters in 27 ridings (as of February 26, 2012) allegedly received automated phone calls (`robocalls') that either contained misleading information about the location of their...

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On Public Opinion Polls and Voters' Turnout

Klor, Esteban F; Winter, Eyal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper studies the effects that the revelation of information on the electorate's preferences has on voters' turnout decisions. The experimental data show that closeness in the division of preferences induces a significant increase in turnout. Moreover, for closely divided electorates (and...

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The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory

Battaglini, Marco; Morton, Rebecca; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper reports the first laboratory study of the swing voter’s curse and provides insights on the larger theoretical and empirical literature on 'pivotal voter' models. Our experiment controls for different information levels of voters, as well as the size of the electorate, the...

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Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Banerjee, Abhijit; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Khandelwal, Amit; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

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