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's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
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-term externalities of binge drinking. We find that these externalities are on average £4.9 billion per year ($7 billion), about £80 for …
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an...
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externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind directions, we show increased levels of contemporaneous pollution …
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where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …
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externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently … negative externalities: impacts are moderate in size and spatially confined to a radius of 2,000 metres around plants. We …
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Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment …
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This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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