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Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - 2021

Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...

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Demand for Smokeless Tobacco : Role of Magazine Advertising

Dave, Dhaval - 2012

the national level, of the effects of magazine advertising on ST use. The focus on magazine advertising is significant …-specific advertising information over the sample period. This allows detailed and salient measures of advertising exposure at the … these tobacco products. Sub-analyses point to some differences in the advertising and tax response across segments of the …

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The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media

Athey, Susan - 2014

In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that an important force behind the collapse in advertising revenue experienced … introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …

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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2010

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. Our identification strategy relies on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. We find...

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Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2011

Tiebout's classic 1956 paper has strong implications regarding stratification across and within jurisdictions, predicting in the simplest instance a hierarchy of internally homogeneous communities ordered by income. Typically, urban areas are less than fully stratified, and the question arises...

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"Last-Place Aversion" : Evidence and Redistributive Implications

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2011

Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory experiments, we find...

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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

Zheng, Siqi - 2011

In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...

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Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

Collins, Courtney - 2013

This paper examines schools' decisions to sort students into different classes and how those sorting processes impact student achievement. There are two potential effects that result from schools creating homogeneous classes--a "tracking effect," which allows teachers to direct their focus to a...

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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies : Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2013

We present evidence that benefits from agglomeration concentrate within race. Cross-sectionally, the black-white wage gap increases by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. Within cities, controlling for unobservable productivity through residential-tract-by-demographic...

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Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission Across Multiple Generations

Solon, Gary - 2013

Existing theoretical models of intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status have strong implications for the association of outcomes across multiple generations of a family. These models, however, are highly stylized and do not encompass many plausible avenues for transmission across...

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