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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …, male wage inequality should be associated with higher husband quality among those "early-mover"women who choose to forgo …-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …
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inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … extreme wealth inequality in society. …
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inequality across education levels. Finally, valuations meaningfully interact with commuting distance and WFH reduces (but does …
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This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...
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, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the … the wage spectrum. At moderate and high AI capabilities, 17% and 36% of skills are exposed on average, and up to 45% in … the highest wage quartile. Examining complementary versus substitution, we model the impact on side versus core …
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development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density …
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social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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To synthesize the literature on determinants of the shadow economy, this paper uses three cross-national shadow economy measures and employs numerous determinants over hundreds of model combinations to identify robust determinants of the shadow economy and address modeling uncertainty. We find...
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