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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016
frictions: imperfect mobility across industries, and downward nominal wage rigidity. Combining the empirical and model results …
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Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
Sinai, Todd M. - 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the riskiest aspects of owning a house is the uncertainty surrounding its sale price, especially if one moves to another housing market. However, households who sell a house typically buy another house, whose purchase price is also uncertain. We show that...
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Mobility Zones
Monte, Ferdinando - 2020
This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833114
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Impacts of State Reopening Policy on Human Mobility
Nguyen, Thuy Dieu - 2020
This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …-device-based metrics. Soon (four days) after reopening, we observe a 6% to 8% mobility increase. In addition, we find that temperature and …
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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020
New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...
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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
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Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
consequences of international mobility of managerial know-how. We use the model and aggregate data to infer the relative scarcity …
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
geographical mobility, lower. Families are larger (higher fertility and higher family size) with strong family ties, which is …
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Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago
Abadie, Alberto - 2010
The attacks of September 11, 2001, and more recently the Madrid and London downtown train bombings, have raised concerns over both the safety of downtowns and the continuous efforts by terrorists to attack areas of such high density and significance. This article employs building-level data on...
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