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The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching
Duffie, Darrell - 2011
This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … is an almost-sure constant cross-sectional distribution of types in a large population, and moreover that the multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121601
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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122467
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151806
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...
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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the Acs
Evans, William N. - 2017
Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955946
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Population and Civil War
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for …
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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi-Model Comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth - 2015
using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013518
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048050
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053843