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technologically older, vintage capital in the airline industry. Using a panel of aircraft-level data around the world, we find that …
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airline industry. We consider an airline's choices of quality and price as dynamic decisions that trade off current cash flows … for future revenue. We examine how airline mishandled baggage, on-time performance and pricing are related to financial … distress and bankruptcy, controlling for the endogeneity of financial distress and bankruptcy. We find that an airline …
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increase in the relative supply of research in the rest of the world. But they also indicate authors from developing countries …
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Our previous paper (McCabe and Snyder 2014) contained the provocative result that, despite a positive average effect, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular those published in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in which open access leads more readers to acquire the full...
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The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
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Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...
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We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly education and labor market outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies that link childhood health to later-life outcomes. The main themes we focus on are in-utero exposures,...
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Over the last six decades articles published in leading economic history journals have been less likely to be co-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics journals there have been strong, monotonic increases in...
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We identify three separate stages in the post-World War II history of applied microeconomic research: A generally non …
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Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
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