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We combine national administrative data on earnings and participation in subsidized housing to study how the demolition of 160 public housing projects--funded by the HOPE VI program--affected the adult labor market outcomes for 18,500 children. Our empirical strategy compares children exposed to...
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A growing number of surveys elicit respondents' expectations for future events on a 0-100 scale of percent chance. These data reveal substantial heaping at multiples of 10 and 5 percent, suggesting that respondents round their reports. This paper studies the nature of rounding by analyzing...
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Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...
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The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
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Online advertising offers unprecedented opportunities for measurement. A host of new metrics, clicks being the leading example, have become widespread in advertising science. New data and experimentation platforms open the door for firms and researchers to measure true causal effects of...
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There is a great deal of late bidding on internet second price auctions. We show that this need not result from either …
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This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
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an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …
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The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection … negotiating interconnection agreements at the internet layer due to reduced bargaining power of European networks and increased …
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This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …
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