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Bayoumi, Tamim; Jayanthi, Sarma; Lee, Jaewoo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating the IMF's nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF's current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights...

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The Log of Gravity

Santos Silva, J.M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading in the presence of heteroskedasticity. This paper explains why this …

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Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket

Gandal, Neil; Shabelansky, Anastasia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …

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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity

Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no … evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a positive relationship most likely reflect a … neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that current interest in changing the built environment to counter the rise in obesity is …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

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Cyclical Productivity in Europe and the United States, Evaluating the Evidence on Returns to Scale and Input Utilization

Inklaar, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries (France, Germany and the Netherlands). Industry-specific demand-side instruments are used to examine the prevalence of non-constant returns to scale and unmeasured input...

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Urban Growth and Transportation

Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city’s stock of roads causes about a 2% increase in its population and employment and a small decrease in its share of poor households over...

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The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria

Frankel, Jeffrey A; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A country’s suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity or trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An Exercise in IV estimation with Different Instruments

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates. Card (1995a) suggests that these results can be...

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