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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...

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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

poverty and weak governance reduce the ability to address the negative externalities that come with density. This paper models … down. For large cities with weak governments, draconian policies may be the only way to curb negative externalities … to reduce negative externalities is less costly when city populations are low or institutions are strong, but that public …

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Growth in Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1991

Recent theories of economic growth, including Romer (1986), Porter (1989) and Jacobs (1969), have stressed the role of technological spillovers in generating growth. Because such knowledge spillovers are particularly effective in cities, where communication between people is more extensive, data...

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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

Ashraf, Nava - 2016

Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both …

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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

Heckman, James J. - 2003

The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...

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Capabilities and Skills

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...

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