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communication about future interest rate decisions based on information from the Internet and news sources. We apply the methodology …
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We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the … descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement … rate or return from IT spillovers from the invention of the Internet, and to a large potential undercounting of "digital …
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about 0.2% of consumer spending in the U.S., for example, went for Internet accessin 2004 yet time use data indicates that … like the Internet, a simple model in which both expenditure and time contribute to consumption can be used to estimate the … theory predicts that higher wage internet subscribers should spend less time online (for non-work reasons) and the degree to …
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This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...
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Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...
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Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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This paper examines the impact of a gifted program on retention in an urban school district using a regression discontinuity design. Gifted programs often employ IQ thresholds for admission, with those above the threshold being admitted. One common problem with the RD design arises if the...
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One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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. Data on trade in intellectual property are fragmentary. The intangibility of the trade makes measurement difficult, but …
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