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How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry
Borenstein, Severin - 2007
Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the...
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Fear of Flying? Economic Analysis of Airline Safety
Rose, Nancy L. - 2022
The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable public attention and debate since economic deregulation of the industry in 1978. These concerns have energized economic research on three aspects of airline safety. First, has the level of airline safety declined since...
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio Pietro - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
Baker, Laurence C. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - 2022
the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various …
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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet; Bär, Marlies; Banks, James - 2023
in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich areas had similar overall life expectancy … by 2036. European life expectancy also stalled after 2014. Still, the comparison with Europe suggests that mortality …
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How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs
Moser, Petra - 2013
This paper introduces a new internationally comparable data set that permits an empirical investigation of the effects of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, and the...
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Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height
Bozzoli, Carlos - 2011
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early life burden of nutrition and disease is not only responsible for mortality in childhood but also...
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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the U.S
Aghion, Philippe - 2010
We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...
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