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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Kaiser, William - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment

Miller, Conrad - 2018

This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000. I document that, conditional on detailed job characteristics, blacks are less likely than whites to work in suburban establishments, and this spatial segregation is stable...

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Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010

American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the …

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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010

Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...

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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2011

Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership in central cities was facilitated by the movement of white...

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Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Edlund, Lena - 2015

-time skilled workers are more likely to locate in the city center and their growth can account for the observed price changes …

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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity Growth in the United States and Japan

Marston, Richard C. - 2004

United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a …

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From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation : U.S. Balance-of-Payments Policy in the 1960s

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

U.S. balance-of-payments problems in the 1960s remain poorly understood. In this paper I argue that they had two aspects. On the one hand there was a problem of real overvaluation, evident in the erosion of the current account and reflecting the reluctance of the Fed, the Executive and Congress...

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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A New Interpretation of Productivity Growth Dynamics in the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Era U.S. Economy, 1950-2022

Gordon, Robert J.; Sayed, Hassan - 2022

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …

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