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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2006

The government has responded to misleading advertising by banning it, engaging in counter-advertising and taxing the product. In this paper, we consider the social welfare effects of those different responses to misinformation. While misinformation lowers consumer surplus, its effect on social...

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The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation : Evidence from Greater Boston

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2006

Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. The reductions in new supply don't appear to reflect a real lack of land, but instead reflect a response to man-made restrictions on development. In this...

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Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

hypothesis that regulation is constraining the supply of housing so that increased demand leads to much higher prices, not many …

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The Rise of the Regulatory State

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as … enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation based on the idea that justice can be subverted with sufficient expenditure … environment of significant inequality of wealth and political power. The switch to regulation can then be seen as an efficient …

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Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle

Blundell, Richard - 2019

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...

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Changes in Assortative Matching and Inequality in Income : Evidence for the UK

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2020

The extent to which like-with like marry is important for inequality as well as for the outcomes of children that result from the union. In this paper we present evidence on changes in assortative mating and its implications for household inequality in the UK. Our approach contrasts with others...

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What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Ellison, Glenn - 2007

Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use...

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The Curley Effect

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning...

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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice

Chiappori, Pierré-Andre - 2015

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...

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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

Blundell, Richard - 2013

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...

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