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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

Autor, David H. - 2000

We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly …

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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …

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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century

Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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On the Persistence of the China Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...

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The $ 800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program : Where Did the Money Go and Why Did it Go There?

Autor, David H.; Cho, David; Crane, Leland D.; Goldar, Mita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving one or more loans, the PPP nearly...

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...

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Early Fertility Decline in the United States : Tests of Alternative Hypotheses using New Complete-Count Census Microdata and Enhanced County-Level Data

Haines, Michael R. - 2020

The U.S. fertility transition in the nineteenth century is unusual. Not only did it start from a very high fertility level and very early in the nation's development, but it also took place long before the nation's mortality transition, industrialization, and urbanization. This paper assembles...

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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022

We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades : A Reassessment

Autor, David H. - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...

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