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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year … unemployment and increasing reliance on social security persist across wide regions of East Germany together with these migration …) by allowing for migration and network externalities. In that theory, two equilibria can result: one with a high …
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
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Evaluating Conditions in Major Chinese Housing Markets
Gyourko, Joseph; Deng, Yongheng; Wu, Jing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
High and rising prices in Chinese housing markets have attracted global attention, as well as the interest of the Chinese government and its regulators. Housing markets look very risky based on the stylized facts we document. Price-to-rent ratios in Beijing and seven other large markets across...
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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Transportation Choices and the Value of Statistical Life
Miguel, Edward Andrew; León, Gianmarco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper exploits an unusual transportation setting to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL). We estimate the trade-offs individuals are willing to make between mortality risk and cost as they travel to and from the international airport in Sierra Leone (which is separated from the...
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Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Lee, Kenneth; Brewer, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged...
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Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
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Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
Acemoglu, Daron; Dell, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...
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The Dynamics of City Formation
Henderson, J. Vernon; Venables, Anthony J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...
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Localization Economies, Vertical Organization and Trade
Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
This paper develops a model of regional production networks based on localization economies. I consider an industry with two activities: one with location-specific external economies, the other with constant returns. Under autarky, localization economies imply the formation of an industry...
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