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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … suggestive evidence that equilibrium distortions in the direction of technology can be substantial in the context of industrial … automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …
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Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in...
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We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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-thirds of cross-country labor productivity differences. Both selection and technology channels are important. Variation in …-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed countries feature higher distortions and larger dispersion in firm …-level productivity, mostly resulting from the higher prevalence of unproductive firms. Quantitatively, measured cross-country differences …
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We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational … related vacancies over 2010-2018 that is not limited to the Professional and Business Services and Information Technology … not yet having detectable aggregate labor market consequences …
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Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...
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How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
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We estimate the causal effect of the diffusion of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of Green Party votes in federal and state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Our estimates are based on instruments that induce exogenous variation in roof appropriateness to PV installation....
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We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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In this paper, we investigate the complex interrelationships among worktime, wages and health identified in the … Grossman model of the demand for health. We specify a 3-equation simultaneous model designed to capture the tune dependent … relationship between worktime and health found in other studies disappears when the relevant simultaneities are accounted for. Our …
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