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The welfare contributions of the digital economy, characterized by the proliferation of new and free goods, are not well-measured in our current national accounts. We derive explicit terms for the welfare contributions of these goods and introduce a new metric, GDP-B which quantifies their...
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The national-income accounts double-count investment, which enters once when it occurs and again in present value as rental income on added capital. The double-counting implies over-statement of levels of GDP and national income. Across countries, those with higher propensities to invest...
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satellite features and software necessary to increase the spatial resolution of any other global-scale administrative data that …
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Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals' races and ethnicities to calculate them. A common solution is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using...
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There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …
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insurance recommendations provided by economic financial planning software and the practical application of traditional … financial planning software. The two software programs are Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), developed by Economic Security … stylized and 4 of which are actual households. The two software programs recommend dramatically different levels of saving or …
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A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …
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to open source software, an unpriced commodity in the digital economy. The study is the first to follow usage and … upgrading of unpriced software over a long period of time. It finds evidence that software updates mislead analyses of sources … software. We analyze the largest dataset ever compiled on web server use in the United States and link it to disaggregated …
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explore the rising spatial concentration of patents and identify an underlying stability in their distribution. Software …. Tech centers also account for a growing share of non-software patents, but the reallocation, by contrast, is entirely from … the five largest population centers in 1980. Non-software patenting is stable for most cities, with anchor tenants like …
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