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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016

knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …

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Lock-Downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel - 2020

Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...

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Mental Health Stigma

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey respondents under-report mental health conditions 36% of the time when asked about diagnosis and about 20% of the time when asked about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are...

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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics

Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...

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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012

The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....

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Productivity in the Transportation Sector

Gordon, Robert J. - 2007

This is a comprehensive study of measurement and substantive issues that arise in determining the rate of multi factor productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment are provided by two government agencies and...

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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Heissel, Jennifer - 2019

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...

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What's Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?

Choe, Derrick; Oettl, Alexander; Seamans, Robert - 2022

In this chapter we draw from existing literature and a range of statistics to describe economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future work, and argue for more research on the role of...

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …

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Trading, Communication and the Response of Price to New Information

Gorton, Gary B. - 2010

The dynamic behavior of security prices is studied in a setting where two agents trade strategically and learn over time from market prices. The model introduces an information structure which is intended to capture the notion that information is difficult to interpret. Strategic interaction and...

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