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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan - 2012
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …
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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow : Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2011
later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119022
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease : Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071287
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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases : Evidence from High Frequency Data
Adda, Jerome - 2015
Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015027
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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833251
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833253
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market : Evidence from Stay-at-Home Orders
Ali, Umair - 2020
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market may be particularly vulnerable to a SAHO-type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833254
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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835260
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Did California's Shelter-in-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects
Friedson, Andrew - 2020
On March 19, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-33-20 2020, which required all residents of the state of California to shelter in place for all but essential activities such as grocery shopping, retrieving prescriptions from a pharmacy, or caring for relatives. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835886