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The value of a healthy home : lead paint remediation and housing values
Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017
The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. In this paper, we estimate the benefits of lead-paint remediation on housing prices. Using data...
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Severe air pollution and labor productivity
Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2015
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output over 15 months for a panel of 98 manufacturing workers at a plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base pay or minimum pay, for homogeneous tasks performed over...
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of … is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of a region by one percentage point in increases the per capita … income growth rate in that region on average by about 0.1 percentage points, thus suggesting an impact of net migration that …
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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America’s small towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, Thomas - 2010
1970s and 1980s. -- Regional economic growth ; Hispanics ; migration …
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Socio-spatial transformations, suburbanisation, and voting behaviour in the Vilnius urban region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; Ham, Maarten van - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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The long-lasting shadow of the allied occupation of Austria on its spatial equilibrium
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2016
demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …
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Amerisclerosis? : the puzzle of rising US unemployment persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207304
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Parents, neighbors and youth crime
Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2020
We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. We develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model predicts that parental and peer socialization are...
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Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? : a long-term, local-level perspective
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2020
well as transfer new norms and practices across borders, this finding supports the hypothesis that migration contributes to …
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