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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India

Datt, Gaurav - 2016

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite...

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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle

Kydland, Finn - 2012

Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...

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Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?

Ferraro, Domenico - 2012

This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...

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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person …

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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Ets)

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2014

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using data with questions about respondents' ETS exposure in...

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry F. - 2013

Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...

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