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and technology differences across both goods and production stages. We estimate technology and trade costs via the …
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We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …
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In this paper, we re-examine the recent evidence that technology shocks do not produce business cycle patterns in the … data. We first extend Gal¡'s (1999) work, which uses long-run restrictions to identify technology shocks, by examining … whether the identified shocks can be plausibly interpreted as technology shocks. We do this in three ways. First, we derive …
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Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using … annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …
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This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …
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use historical factors like education in 1928 or Congregationalism in 1890, as instruments for the level of schooling … political outcomes occurs because more education improves political institutions …
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