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, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …
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. Overcoming these constraints will require a careful balance between data privacy and public health, and rigorous human …
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migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … mitigate the impact of droughts on migration, especially for a high initial level of inequality. …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884158
little impact of the scheme on quality measures, which we interpret as due to the differential measurement technology. We …
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...
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demand and slow down GDP growth, even in the face of the positive technology shock that AI entails. If the elasticity of …
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