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transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer characteristics including ethnicity, age, nationality, education, and …
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, those without a university education are less likely to have a favourable impression of international trade, and to believe … that it has specific benefits in terms of reducing prices, creating jobs, or increasing wages. While economists often … emphasize the consumer benefits of trade due to lower prices, only 20-40% of survey respondents in most countries perceive such …
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. Most firms revise downward their expectations for sales, orders, employment, and investment, while prices are expected to … higher prices, relative to unconstrained firms. The search for and availability of liquidity is a key determinant of firms …
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How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving decisions of temporary migrants and then test its implications by using data...
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This paper analyzes the joint dynamics of prices, output and employment across firms. We develop a dynamic equilibrium … productivity and demand shocks have distinct implications for the firms' output and price adjustments. Using panel data on prices … productivity and demand for the labor market and the dispersions of prices and labor productivity. We further analyze the impact of …
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There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of recreational opioid usage....
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genetics, parents, peers, and schools, as well as life experiences. We develop economic models to interpret and give empirical …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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