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The Work-at-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences

Davis, Morris A.; Ghent, Andra C.; Gregory, Jesse M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

where to live, how to allocate their time between working at home and at the office, and how much space to use in production …. A key parameter is the elasticity of substitution between working at home and in the office that we estimate using cross …

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Remote Work and City Structure

Monte, Ferdinando; Porcher, Charly; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the adoption of remote work within cities and its effect on city structure and welfare. We develop a dynamic model of a city in which workers can decide to work in the central business district (CBD) or partly at home. Working in the CBD allows them to interact with other commuters,...

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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development

Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise … due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into office or home work. We … conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the …

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Computerization of White Collar Jobs

Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

from 2007 and 2010--2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at … such jobs, broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill office functions. We aggregate these patterns to … realignment in task assignment across occupations, leading office support occupations to become higher skill. We argue relative …

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Networks, Barriers, and Trade

Baqaee, David - 2019

We study a non-parametric class of neoclassical trade models with global production networks. We characterize their properties in terms of sufficient statistics useful for growth and welfare accounting as well as for counterfactuals. We establish a formal duality between open and closed...

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From Paper to Plastic : Understanding the Impact of eWIC on WIC Recipient Behavior

Hanks, Andrew S. - 2018

Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized. WIC enrolls only sixty percent of eligible persons. Participants claim only a fraction of available benefits. Researchers suggest that people underutilize WIC because of the...

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A New Use of Importance Sampling to Reduce Computational Burden in Simulation Estimation

Ackerberg, Daniel A. - 2001

Method of Simulated Moments (MSM) estimators introduced by McFadden (1989)and Pakes and Pollard (1989) are of great use to applied economists. They are relatively easy to use even for estimating very complicated economic models. One simply needs to generate simulated data according to the model...

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Computational Economics and Economic Theory : Substitutes or Complements

Judd, Kenneth L. - 1997

This essay examines the idea and potential of a computational approach to theory,' discusses methodological issues raised by such computational methods, and outlines the problems associated with the dissemination of computational methods and the exposition of computational results. We argue that...

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Computers and Productivity in France : Some Evidence

Greenan, Nathalie - 1996

In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French manufacturing and services industries. We match information on computer utilization in the work place collected at the employee level in the years 1987, 1991 and 1993, with...

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Computer Use and Productivity Growth in Federal Government Agencies, 1987 to 1992

Lehr, William - 1996

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government agencies over the period from 1987 to 1992. We link data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on the growth in real output per employee with data from a marketing research...

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