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This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
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Does the environment have a causal effect on economic development? Using meteorological data, we reconstruct every country's exposure to the universe of tropical cyclones during 1950-2008. We exploit random within-country year-to-year variation in cyclone strikes to identify the causal effect of...
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …
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What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and measures of environmental quality. But this could be due to endogeneity of trade, rather than causality. This paper uses exogenous...
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Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity … consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the … as a high-dimensional aggregation problem: The effect of electricity consumption on emissions can be estimated precisely …
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panel data. These models incorporate unobserved, time-varying, individual heterogeneity, which may be correlated with the …
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In this paper we study methods for estimating causal effects in settings with panel data, where a subset of units are …
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In this paper we use cross-state panel data to show a positive and significant correlation between various measures of …
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This paper considers estimation and testing of vector autoregression coefficients in panel data, and applies the …
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