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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847
Zimran, Ariell - 2018
I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820-1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...
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The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion : Evidence from US cities
Duranton, Gilles - 2009
We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. We find that VKT increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra VKT: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in...
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Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America
Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
During the nineteenth century the United States urbanized - the share of the population living in urban areas increased - and industrialized - the share of the labor force in manufacturing increased. Our survey of the literature and analyses of census data suggests that a key reason was the...
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The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network
Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2019
Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank … network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the …, initially reducing overall network concentration. The network became even more focused on Fed cities during the Depression, as …
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Nothing Propinks Like Propinquity : Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effects of Spatial Proximity in the Major League Baseball Draft
Ahmadi, Majid; Durst, Nathan; Lachman, Jeff; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent models and empirical work on network formation emphasize the importance of propinquity in producing strong …
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
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Stellungnahme des Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses zum Thema "Neue Impulse für die transatlantische Partnerschaft und den transatlantischen Dialog"
Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2001
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Schemes for financing radioactive waste storage and disposal : final report
1999
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Price Level Convergence Among United States Cities : Lessons for the European Central Bank
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 2000
We study the dynamics of price indices for major U.S. cities using panel econometric methods and find that relative price levels among cities mean revert at an exceptionally slow rate. In a panel of 19 cities from 1918 to 1995, we estimate the half-life of convergence to be approximately nine...
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