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are endowed with idiosyncratic entrepreneurial creativity the realization of which requires urban agglomeration linked to …
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We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is related to city size through the effect of population on production, commuting, and housing consumption. With symmetric cities, if pollution is local or per capita pollution...
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effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial … general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure …
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The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
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We present a general framework for Bayesian estimation and causality assessment in epidemiological models. The key to … distribution. We show how to use the posterior simulation outputs as inputs for exercises in causality assessment. We apply our …
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The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...
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Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
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Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...
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increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We adopt a novel method of uncovering causality from non-experimental data proposed …
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search queries with regard to their mutual predictability, Granger-causality and cause-effect delay structure. The Bitcoin is … relatively high frequencies ranging from two to five months. In the other direction, causality runs from the cryptocurrency price … measure for the relevant frequency bands with significant causality ranges from slightly more than one month to about four …
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