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the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …
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– subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …
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– subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …
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own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between −1.0 and −1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just −0.2 to −0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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productivity and demand shocks have distinct implications for the firms' output and price adjustments. Using panel data on prices … productivity and demand for the labor market and the dispersions of prices and labor productivity. We further analyze the impact of … shocks to the first and second moments of idiosyncratic risk on macroeconomic outcomes. An increase in demand uncertainty …
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spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain …
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. Polarization of employment demand is the more credible explanation for the more recent evolution. As in other developed economies …
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported … percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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