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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity differences across countries using high-resolution...

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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

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Land Rental Markets : Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Acampora, Michelle; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

- reallocating plots to farmers who own fewer plots and are younger and more market-oriented - and persist beyond the subsidy …

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Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Connolly, Marie - 2019

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The...

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Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US : Analyzing the Disparities

Cullen, Mark R. - 2012

Life expectancy at birth, estimated from United States period life tables, has been shown to vary systematically and widely by region and race. We use the same tables to estimate the probability of survival from birth to age 70 (S70), a measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more...

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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …

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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …

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