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the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …
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anticipation effects, along with more conventional predictions, using a quasi-experiment in Tennessee schools. Performance improves …
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Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...
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is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two … for regional economic activity based on daytime satellite imagery. Applying different panel methods …
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, and an alternative which avoids potential bias arising from effect heterogeneity. Using data from Tennessee and Washington …
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, which refers to price stability and high employment, and in which the exchange rate and other international variables matter … heavily shaped by the distinctive circumstances of the last three decades, when the influence of international considerations … on Fed policy has been limited. I discuss how the Federal Reserve paid significant attention to international …
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Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international … involves a public-goods problem; the taxation to fund reimbursements involves a private domestic cost with an international … of health care is a significant issue. A small European country has no access-innovation trade-off in its pricing; it …
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allocation of resources across developed countries at the business cycle frequency. Here we discuss how evidence on international … quantity comovement, exchange rates, asset prices, and international portfolio holdings can be used to assess efficiency …
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This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the … evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent … that internationally mobile researchers contribute significantly to extending the international scope and quality of the …
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This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...
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