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Racial Heterogeneity in the U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence

Kim, Minki; Lee, Munseob - 2023

Structural transformation and regional convergence in U.S. income have been long-standing trends. Caselli and Coleman (2001) discovered that 60% of regional convergence between the U.S. South and North from 1940 to 1990 is due to structural transformation. Our replication confirms these robust...

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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David; Chaudhry, Azam; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … the laboratory public goods game exhibits no inter-temporal spillovers, measured time preferences should not predict …

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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data

Adda, Jérôme - 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...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of place based policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter A.; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias Moreno, Ferran - 2017

This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo (2011)). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...

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Varying Youth Cohort Effects on Regional Labour Market Outcomes in Germany

de Graaff, Thomas; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by −0.2%. We challenge the assumption that cohort size effects...

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"And Yet, It Moves": Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo; Polo, Alberto; Violante, Giovanni L. - 2019

We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...

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