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This paper examines the relationship between a young adults' debt burden and the decision to co-reside with a parent. Using a quarterly panel of young adults' credit histories, and controlling for age, county, and quarter fixed effects, and local demographic characteristics, unemployment rates,...
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We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an … environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … sectoral productivity changes. We fi nd that such elasticities can vary signi cantly depending on the sectors and regions …
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a speech at the Washington Economic Club, Washington, D.C.
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This paper incorporates the timing of childbearing into a growth model with endogenous fertility. It analyzes a model in which individuals' human capital stock depends positively on their education and parental human capital and in which producing and raising children and acquiring human capital...
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In this paper, we examine the effects of likely demographic changes on medical spending for the elderly. Standard forecasts highlight the potential for greater life expectancy to increase costs: medical costs generally increase with age, and greater life expectancy means that more of the elderly...
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This paper uses a newly constructed, comprehensive dataset to investigate the diffusion of containerization. The data show that country adoption is exceptionally fast while firm usage increases more slowly. To guide my empirical investigation, I build a multi-country trade model with endogenous...
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a speech at the C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, January 19, 2005, and at the C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, on January 19, 2005
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