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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … kilometer, than do white wages. This pattern holds even though our method allows for non-parametric controls for the effects of … age, education, and other demographics on wages, for unobserved worker skill as proxied by residential location, and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950796
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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Learning Millennial-Style
Carlin, Bruce I.; Jiang, Li; Spiller, Stephen A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950669
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Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Acemoglu, Daron; Laibson, David; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the marginal product and wages of lower-skill teachers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951360
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment.
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Fricke, Hans; Steinmayr, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students’ major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An important component of the first-year curriculum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272311
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885297
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Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts
Autor, David; Palmer, Christopher J.; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and the development of efficient housing policy. This paper measures the capitalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885298
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950945
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951032
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Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
Watson, Tara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements which allow state and local law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951153