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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals

Wolak, Frank - 2016

This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices … household demographics in the utility's service territory to recover the impact of these factors on water demand. An index of … models are used to compute the distribution of utility-level water demand and revenues for any possible price schedule …

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Retail Trade by Federal Reserve District, 1919 to 1939 : A Statistical History

Anderson, Haelim - 2010

Soon after beginning operations, the Federal Reserve established a nationwide network for collecting information about the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve...

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Supply Responses to Digital Distribution : Recorded Music and Live Performances

Mortimer, Julie H. - 2010

Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution of...

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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production : Evidence from Us States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio - 2012

We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...

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Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region : Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800

Mancall, Peter C. - 2011

We employ the conjectural approach to estimate the growth of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the mid-Atlantic region (Del., NJ, NY and Penn). In contrast to previous studies of the region's growth that relied heavily on the performance of the export sector, the conjectural method...

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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011

We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...

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Airports and Urban Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the...

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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...

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Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103806

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