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Powering Work from Home
Cicala, Steve - 2020
This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays...
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Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data
Petrin, Amil - 2005
We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost of primary inputs. We show how to aggregate plant-level data to this measure and how to use plant-level data to decompose our measure into technical efficiency and reallocation...
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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...
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Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work
Barth, Erling - 2016
worker, industry in which the establishment produces, and R&D intensity of the firm. Employer fixed effects also contribute …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be … district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for …
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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Does "Grease Money" Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?
Kaufmann, Daniel - 1999
In an environment in which bureaucratic burden and delay are exogenous, an individual firm may find bribes helpful to reduce the effective red tape it faces. The efficient grease' hypothesis asserts therefore that corruption can improve economic efficiency and that fighting bribery would be...
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Firms' Inflation Expectations : New Evidence from France
Savignac, Frédérique; Gautier, Erwan; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using a new survey of firms' inflation expectations in France, we provide novel evidence about the measurement and formation of inflation expectations on the part of firms. First, French firms report inflation expectations with a smaller, but still positive, bias than households and display less...
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