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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

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Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing : New Estimates Using a Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Approach

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J.; Margolit, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important tool for improving public health outcomes, including reducing childbearing among teenagers. Taken at face value, recently reported estimates suggest that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could reduce the number of teenage...

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Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use

Abouk, Rahi; Courtemanche, Charles; Dave, Dhaval; Feng, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has prompted aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and 2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. Applying a continuous treatment...

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Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?

Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in marijuana consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use...

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Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply : Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable … effects on labor supply in comparison groups. Employment effects of school reopenings are concentrated among mothers of older …

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Have Recreational Marijuana Laws Undermined Public Health Progress on Adult Tobacco Use?

Dave, Dhaval; Liang, Yang; Pesko, Michael F.; Phillips, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Public health experts caution that legalization of recreational marijuana may normalize smoking and undermine the decades-long achievements of tobacco control policy. However, very little is known about the impact of recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on adult tobacco use. Using information from...

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Imputing Missing Values in the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns

Eckert, Fabian - 2020

The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 … to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: (1) employment for the …-up constraints implicit in the hierarchical arrangement of the data to impute missing employment. Second, we provide concordances to …

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010

' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters … and importers with 100 percent employment in wholesale and retail differ from pure "producer and consumer" trading firms … along a number of dimensions: they are smaller in terms of employment, trade value and domestic sales, operate fewer U …

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A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries

Pierce, Justin R. - 2009

This paper provides and describes concordances between the ten-digit Harmonized System (HS) categories used to classify products in U.S. international trade and the four-digit SIC and six-digit NAICS industries that cover the years 1989 to 2006. We also provide concordances between ten-digit HS...

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Pierce, Justin R. - 2009

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...

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