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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012
Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112847
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Spatial Development
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311942
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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Busso, Matias - 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142084
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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability
Schick, Andreas - 2010
Taller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135412
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118837
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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2011
Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125163
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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
Carlsson, Magnus - 2012
preparation for military service in Sweden. Both age at test date and number of days spent in school vary randomly across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099118
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 2012
originally thought. We provide evidence on the intergenerational impact of policy by showing that educational reform in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104990
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Education and Mortality : Evidence from a Social Experiment
Meghir, Costas - 2012
We examine the effects of a major Swedish educational reform, that increased the years of compulsory schooling, on mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the...
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