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Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries

Piton, Céline - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions : A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - 2021

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....

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The Understated 'Housing Shortage' in the United States

Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022

estimated housing shortage is uniformly low in areas with low regulation but varies in areas with high regulation, since a …

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Unpacking Neighborhood Effects : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Belchior, Carlos; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023

This paper investigates the impacts of neighborhoods on the economic outcomes of adults. We exploit one of the world's largest housing lottery programs and administrative data linking lottery registration, formal employment, and access to social programs in Brazil. Receiving a house has positive...

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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System : Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng - 2010

International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...

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