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composition of US counties on foreign direct investment (FDI) sent and received by local firms. To isolate the causal effect of … ancestry on FDI, we build a simple reduced-form model of migrations: Migrations from a foreign country to a US county at a … relative to the mean increases by 4 percentage points the probability that at least one local firm engages in FDI with that …
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Host governments often display two types of behavior toward outside investors. At an initial stage they eagerly compete for production facilities by offering subsidy packages, but often reverse these policies at a later point. In contrast to the literature that explains the behavior as a result...
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We study patterns of FDI in a multi-country world economy. We develop a model featuring non-homothetic preferences for … countries via exports or FDI depends on a proximity-concentration trade-off. We characterize the joint patterns of trade and FDI … when countries differ in income distribution and size and show that FDI is more likely to occur between countries with …
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Using annual U. S. time series data from 1950-1974, formal tests of causation are performed among three socioeconomic phenomena: women's labor force participation rates, fertility rates, and divorce rates. Box-Jenkins and other techniques are employed with Granger-Sims type definition of...
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Recent empirical work in several economic fields, particularly environmental and energy economics, has adapted the regression discontinuity (RD) framework to applications where time is the running variable and treatment begins at a particular threshold in time. In this guide for practitioners,...
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We show that, in a general family of linearized structural macroeconomic models, knowledge of the empirically estimable causal effects of contemporaneous and news shocks to the prevailing policy rule is sufficient to construct counterfactuals under alternative policy rules. If the researcher is...
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Why are people living in poverty disproportionately affected by mental illness? We review the interdisciplinary … evidence of the bi-directional causal relationship between poverty and common mental illnesses -- depression and anxiety -- and … psychological interventions generate economic gains. Similarly, negative economic shocks cause mental illness, and anti-poverty …
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build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …
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, according to the Johansen procedure, cointegration fails to hold the farther out the forecasts extend. At the one year ahead …
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