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Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes (quot;technologyquot;);...
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We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...
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treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …
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We compare risk sharing in response to demand and supply shocks in four types of currency unions: segmented markets; a … all domestic demand shocks (deleveraging, fiscal consolidation), while a capital market union is necessary to share supply … banking union and, in the presence of supply shocks, from a capital market union.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working …
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increase the total number of visits they supply each week while only modestly increasing the amount of time they spend working …
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