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Measuring the Spatial Distribution of Health Rankings in the United States

Davis, Will - 2020

We rank counties in the United States of America with respect to population health. We utilize the five observable county health variables used to construct the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute's County Health Rankings (CHRs). Our method relies on a factor analysis model to...

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher - 2004

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …

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What drives merger waves?

Harford, Jarrad - In: Journal of financial economics 77 (2005) 3, pp. 529-560

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The Transformation of Self Employment

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to 23%. This same time period...

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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis

Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...

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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral...

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Industry Wage Differentials : A Firm-Based Approach

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We revisit the estimation of industry wage differentials using linked employer-employee data from the U.S. LEHD program. Building on recent advances in the measurement of employer wage premiums, we define the industry wage effect as the employment-weighted average workplace premium in that...

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So Many Jumps, So Few News

Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Li, Chen Xu; Li, Chenxu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper relates jumps in high frequency stock prices to firm-level, industry and macroeconomic news, in the form of machine-readable releases from Thomson Reuters News Analytics. We find that most relevant news, both idiosyncratic and systematic, lead quickly to price jumps, as market...

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Business Failures by Branch of Business in the United States, 1895 to 1935 : A Statistical History

Richardson, Gary; Angel, Marco del; Gou, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. Those series evolved through many iterations. This essay reconstructs the series from 1895 to 1935 and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis

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How do family ownership, control and management affect firm value

Villalonga, Belén; Amit, Raphael - In: Journal of financial economics 80 (2006) 2, pp. 385-417

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