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Driving Change : Evaluating Connecticut's Collaborative Approach to Reducing Racial Disparities in Policing
Parker, Susan T.; Ross, Matthew B.; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine a statewide program that identifies police departments with large racial disparities in traffic stops and … months) reductions in the number of minorities involved in traffic stops, with no impact on stops of white drivers …. Reductions in traffic stops involving minority drivers primarily result from fewer pretextual stops (85%) for lighting violations …
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Saving: its determinants and macroeconomic implications : special conference issue
Ishikawa, Tsuneo (contributor) - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 2 (1988) 3, pp. 205-384
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Saving: its determinants and macroeconomic implications : special conference issue
Ishikawa, Tsuneo (contributor) - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 2 (1988) 4, pp. 385-491
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U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1994
This paper reviews the main developments in U.S. trade and the balance of payments from the first years of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. American export trade was dominated by agricultural and other resource products long after the majority of the labor force had shifted out...
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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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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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on...
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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987
The participation of U.S. service industry firms in Latin American markets for services consists mainly of the activities of U.S.-owned affiliates operating in Latin America and very little of direct exports of ser- vices from the U.S. The important policy issues thus involve barriers to the...
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Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion
Crucini, Mario J. - 2013
We use a unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005, to uncover six novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. First, at the PPP level, virtually all (91.6%) of price dispersion is attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a...
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