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Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930

Lee, Woong - 2008

At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and businesses, one of their main objectives being to protect job seekers from fraudulent activities by...

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...

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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820–1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...

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Contracting for Government Services : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

Levin, Jonathan - 2010

Local governments can provide services with their own employees or by contracting with private or public sector providers. We develop a model of this quot;make-or-buyquot; choice that highlights the trade-off between productive efficiency and the costs of contract administration. We construct a...

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Privatization in the United States

Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, … - 2021

government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how United … laws restricting county spending encourage privatization, whereas strong public unions discourage it. The evidence is … by political patronage and taxpayer resistance to government spending in the privatization decision …

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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Railroads and Local Economic Development : The United States in the 1850s

Haines, Michael R. - 2006

We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and have interpreted this correlation as...

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Institutions and U.S. Regional Development : A Study of Massachusetts and Virginia

Kim, Sukkoo - 2010

The development of the American economy was accompanied by significant spatial income inequalities between the northern and southern regions. While many factors contributed to northern industrialization and southern stagnation, an important factor was differences in their institutions. In the...

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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014

We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes to the rest of the economy. Using regional and industry data we obtain the aggregate, regional and sectoral elasticities of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and...

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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

Kim, Sukkoo; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

We review historical patterns of economic geography' for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that...

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