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Productivity and the density of human capital

Abel, Jaison R.; Dey, Ishita; Gabe, Todd M. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

accounts for the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling of density increases productivity by 2 to 4 …

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Determinants of college major choice: identification using an information experiment

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

-specific outcomes conditional on various majors, their population beliefs—beliefs about the population distribution of these …, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this … show that respondents make substantial errors in population beliefs, and logically revise their self-beliefs in response to …

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Workforce skills across the urban-rural hierarchy

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M.; Stolarick, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

This paper examines differences in the skill content of work throughout the United States, ranging from densely populated city centers to isolated and sparsely populated rural areas. To do so, we classify detailed geographic areas into categories along the entire urban-rural hierarchy. An...

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Fiscal Policy in an Era of Surpluses : Economic and Financial Implications : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, December 3, 1999

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Learning the fiscal theory of the price level: some consequences of debt management policy

Eusepi, Stefano; Preston, Bruce - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

This paper examines how the scale and composition of public debt can affect economies that implement a combination of “passive” monetary policy and “active” fiscal policy. This policy configuration is argued to be of both historical and contemporary interest in the cases of the U.S. and...

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