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Automation and the Workforce : A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

Acemoglu, Daron; Anderson, Gary; Beede, David Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper describes the adoption of automation technologies by US firms across all economic sectors by leveraging a … new module introduced in the 2019 Annual Business Survey, conducted by the US Census Bureau in partnership with the … five advanced technologies: AI, robotics, dedicated equipment, specialized software, and cloud computing. The adoption of …

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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly

Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008

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Entrepreneurship During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics

Haltiwanger, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...

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Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...

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Economic Crises and Mental Health : Effects of the Great Recession on Older Americans

Cutler, David M.; Sportiche, Noémie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the effect of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on the mental health of older adults, using longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data linked to area-level data on house prices. We use a variety of measures to capture mental health and rely on the very large cross-sectional...

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A Satellite Account for Health in the United States

Cutler, David M. - 2020

Estimating medical care productivity is a central economic challenge. This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector that appropriately measures health care productivity and applies that to the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. The central output of the satellite...

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How do Physicians Respond to Malpractice Allegations? : Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments

Carroll, Caitlin; Cutler, David M.; Jena, Anupam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

sample is Emergency Department physicians in Florida, where we have the universe of data on patients and how they are treated … to patients with conditions similar to what the physician is reported for. The results suggest significant, if modest …

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Founding Teams and Startup Performance

Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and early joiners. We investigate the idea that the...

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When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

Cutler, David M. - 2007

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...

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Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

Cutler, David M. - 2007

In the past few decades, some measures of population risk have improved, while others have deteriorated. Understanding the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the population in the early 1970s with that of the population in...

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