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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui - 2018
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law
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Urban Density and Covid-19
Carozzi, Felipe - 2020
This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...
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Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
Halliday, Timothy - 2008
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...
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Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
vom Lehn, Christian - 2020
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data : A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...
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Partisanship and Survey Refusal
Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren - 2022
Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left …-war Czechoslovakia and find a long-lasting footprint: Communist party support, party cell frequencies, far-left values, and social …
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Long-Term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy : A Re-Analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011
mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …. Statistically, long-term effects of famine on mortality become only visible when changes in the frailty distribution of cohorts are …
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