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Opioid addiction and mortality skyrocketed over the past decade. A casual look at the geographic incidence of opioid mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led observers to make a link that was characterized by one...
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future. This paper summarizes the key themes emerging from a conference on de-industrialization. De-industrialization is a …
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shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our … deindustrialization. Third, differences in the rate of agricultural productivity growth across economies can account for the majority of …
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We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
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I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post … deindustrialization has potentially significant economic and political ramifications, including lower economic growth and democratic …
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Jagdish Bhagwati. This paper models the deindustrialization hypothesis explicitly as a domestic distortions issue, and shows …
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some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The … sectors going back to 1765. With this new relative price evidence in hand, we ask how much of the de-industrialization was due …
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-employee dataset to examine this decline from 1994 to 2007. We propose a different approach to analyze deindustrialization and generate …
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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … the periphery. This paper explores the sources of Mexican exceptionalism with de-industrialization. It decomposes those …
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We study the extent to which manufacturing decline and local housing booms contributed to changes in labor market outcomes during the 2000s, focusing primarily on the distributional consequences across geographical areas and demographic groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate...
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