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Industrial Productivity in a Hotter World : The Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Firm Investment in Air Conditioning

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2016

. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat exposure. We develop a simple model of air conditioning adoption by … industry-level output, we present aggregation results highlighting how the industry's output is insulated from the heat. Our … empirical analysis of the impacts of heat on total factor productivity in U.S manufacturing yields findings broadly consistent …

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Coal, Smoke, and Death : Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Barreca, Alan - 2014

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality …

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Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency : The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector

Malik, Kabir - 2011

We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...

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The Area and Population of Cities : New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities

Rozenfeld, Hernán D. - 2009

The distribution of the population of cities has attracted a great deal of attention, in part because it sharply constrains models of local growth. However, to this day, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on the "legal" rather...

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Firm Fragmentation and Urban Patterns

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2005

We document several empirical regularities regarding the evolution of urban structure in the largest U.S. metropolitan areas over the period 1980-1990. These regularities relate to changes in resident population, employment, occupations, as well as the number and size of establishments in...

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Urban Structure and Growth

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2005

Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a theory of economic growth in an urban environment. We show that...

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Geography and the Internet : Is the Internet a Substitute or a Complement for Cities?

Sinai, Todd - 2003

We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have more locally-targeted online content and that...

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The Reconstruction of the American Urban Landscape in the Twentieth Century

Kim, Sukkoo - 2002

One of the most important representations of an urban spatial structure is its density. Indeed, an urban area is defined as a densely populated place with a sizeable number of inhabitants. Yet, despite the fact that the defining element of an urban area is its density, few scholars have...

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Cities and Warfare : The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

What impact will terrorism have on America's cities? Historically, large-scale violence has impacted cities in three ways. First, concentrations of people have an advantage in defending themselves from attackers, making cities more appealing in times of violence. Second, cities often make...

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Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities

Shertzer, Allison - 2016

Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet we know surprisingly little about its long-run impacts. We provide the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulation over the long term, using as our setting Chicago's first (1923) comprehensive zoning ordinance. Our...

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