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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States
Nordhaus, William D. - 2010
The year 2005 brought record numbers of hurricanes and storm damages to the United States. Was this a foretaste of … may be underestimated by current storm models. Fourth, 2005 appears to have been a quadruple outlier, involving a record … landfall in the United States, and an intense storm hitting the most vulnerable high-value region in the country …
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Taken by Storm : Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration
Mahajan, Parag - 2017
How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less attractive vis-à-vis migration destinations, fixed costs can prevent increased migration. We examine migration responses to hurricanes, which reduce the attractiveness of origin...
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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...
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Social Distancing and Social Capital : Why U.S. Counties Respond Differently to Covid-19
Ding, Wenzhi - 2020
Since social distancing is the primary strategy for slowing the spread of many diseases, understanding why U.S. counties respond differently to COVID-19 is critical for designing effective public policies. Using daily data from about 45 million mobile phones to measure social distancing we...
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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces
Helliwell, John F. - 2022
The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the United States. The ethnic categories people choose to describe themselves are as important as regional differences, but much less important than education, in explaining...
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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2012
A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...
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Katrina's Children : Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees
Imberman, Scott A. - 2009
In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many children to relocate across the Southeast. While schools quickly enrolled evacuees, receiving families worried about the impact of evacuees on non-evacuee students. Data from Houston and Louisiana show that, on average, the influx of evacuees...
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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey : The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk
Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019
This study uses hedonic property models to explore how coastal real estate markets subject to heterogeneous information treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by examining non-local flooding events. Utilizing a...
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
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