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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and their contributions to local economic development. The...
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Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting : New Evidence from Imperial China
Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is the case that daughters from rich families attain higher...
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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...
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The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility : Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement
Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of city-wide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility …. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the … arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century. Our analysis finds that higher segregation reduces upward mobility for …
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Spatial Production Networks
Arkolakis, Costas; Huneeus, Federico; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use new theory and data to study how firms endogenously form production networks across regions and countries. Supplier and buyer relationships form depending on firms' productivity and geographic location. We characterize the normative and positive properties of the spatial distribution of...
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Housing Dynamics : Theory Behind Empirics
Wang, Ping; Xie, Danyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
To fill the knowledge gap that previous studies ignore either housing or internal urban structure and to enable better fit with important stylized facts, we construct a two-sector optimal growth model of housing where housing is produced by land and housing structure/household durables. We...
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Expecting Floods : Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications
Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Xie, Victoria Wenxin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Flood events and flood risk have been increasing in the past few decades and have important consequences for the economy. Using county-level and ZIP-code-level data from the United States during 1998-2018, we document that (1) increased flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry,...
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Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies
Fan, Jingting; Hong, Sungwan; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The impact of shocks in dynamic environments depends on how forward-looking agents anticipate the path of future fundamentals that shape their decisions. We incorporate flexible beliefs about future fundamentals in a general class of dynamic spatial models, allowing beliefs to be evolving,...
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Clean Growth
Arkolakis, Costas; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission network of electricity ("the grid") that determine the supply and losses of energy in space. The local rate of clean energy...
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Discrete Choice, Complete Markets, and Equilibrium
Mongey, Simon; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper characterizes the allocations that emerge in general equilibrium economies populated by households with preferences of the additive random utility type that make discrete consumption, employment or spatial decisions. We start with a complete markets economy where households can trade...
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