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Endogenous job destruction and job matching in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex …

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Are shrinking and leisure substitutable? : an empirical test of efficiency wages based on urban economic theory

Ross, Stephen L. (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...

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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019

We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...

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Mothers, peers and gender-role identity

Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2019

' mothers. Using detailed information on a sample of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force …

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How differences in property taxes within cities affect urban sprawl?

Song, Yan (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax rates within urban areas and urban spatial pattern in U.S. cities. We first develop a duocentric-city model where the Central Business District (CBD) is located at the origin while the Suburban...

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Urban interactions

Kim, Jung Sung; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2017

This paper studies social-tie formation when individuals care about the geographical location of other individuals. In our model, the intensity of social interactions can be chosen at the same time as friends. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social...

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Social networks

Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009

does a poor job in matching real-world networks. We also analyze behaviors on networks, which take networks as given and …

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The economic consequences of social network structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - 2016

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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Social interactions and labor market outcomes in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and … increase with the level of social interactions in the city because information about jobs is transmitted more rapidly and, as a … jobs because they mainly rely on their strong ties to obtain information about jobs. -- weak ties ; labor market ; social …

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