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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals

Wolak, Frank A. - 2016

This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

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The Economic Consequences of the Opium War

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western colonial influence was introduced in dozens of so-called treaty ports. We document a turnaround during the 19th century in the nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before...

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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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Local economic and political effects of trade deals : evidence from NAFTA

Choi, Jiwon; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Washington, Ebonya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why have white, less educated voters left the Democratic Party over the past few decades? Scholars have proposed ethnocentrism, social issues and deindustrialization as potential answers. We highlight the role played by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study...

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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy

Giorcelli, Michela; Bianchi, Nicola - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize more their...

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The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States

Setzler, Bradley - 2019

Governments go to great lengths to attract foreign multinationals because they are thought to raise the wages paid to their employees (direct effects) and to improve outcomes at local domestic firms (indirect effects). We construct the first U.S. employer-employee dataset with foreign ownership...

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Geospatial Analysis of the September 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak at the University of Wisconsin – Madison : Did a Cluster of Local Bars Play a Critical Role?

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020

We combined smartphone mobility data with census track-based reports of positive case counts to study a coronavirus outbreak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where nearly three thousand students had become infected by the end of September 2020. We identified a cluster of twenty...

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Urban Growth Shadows

Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...

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Retail Trade by Federal Reserve District, 1919 to 1939 : A Statistical History

Park, Haelim M. - 2010

Soon after beginning operations, the Federal Reserve established a nationwide network for collecting information about the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve...

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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...

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