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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Burma …

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The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1964 : The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation

Collins, William J. - 2000

This paper traces the diffusion of fair employment legislation at the state level and evaluates the relative importance of various demographic, political, and economic factors in the promotion (or at least the acceptance) of the principle of government-enforced anti-discrimination policy. The...

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An Industry-Adjusted Index of State Environmental Compliance Costs

Levinson, Arik - 1999

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years, thus facilitating comparisons both among states and...

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Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1999

In the last two decades, U.S. policies have moved from the use of incentives to the use of sanctions to promote work effort in social programs. Surprisingly, except for anecdotes, there is very little systematic evidence of the extent to which sanctions applied to the abusive use of social...

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State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty

Baker, Scott; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (EPU-S), one that captures national and international...

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Misallocation in Indian Agriculture

Bolhuis, Marijn A.; Rachapalli, Swapnika Reddy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We exploit substantial variation in land-market institutions across Indian states and detailed micro household …-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … evidence that states with more rental-market activity feature less misallocation and reallocate land more efficiently over time …

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Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs

Huang, Yue; Hsiang, Solomon; González-Navarro, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The rigorous evaluation of anti-poverty programs is key to the fight against global poverty. Traditional approaches rely heavily on repeated in-person field surveys to measure program effects. However, this is costly, time-consuming, and often logistically challenging. Here we provide the first...

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Vaccination Rates and COVID Outcomes across U.S. States

Barro, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Rates of COVID deaths and cases differ markedly across U.S. states, as do rates of vaccination. This study uses cross-state regressions to assess impacts of vaccinations on COVID outcomes. A number of familiar issues concerning cross-sectional regressions arise, including omitted variables,...

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Occupational Licensing and the Healthcare Labor Market

Dillender, Marcus; LoSasso, Anthony; Phelan, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the labor market impact of states easing occupational license requirements by expanding the scope of practice (SOP) for nurse practitioners (NPs), allowing them to practice without physician oversight. Using data on job postings, we find that employers increase their demand for NPs...

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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module

Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....

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