ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in …

over assets and who bears the costs and benefits of those decisions. They assign ownership, wealth, political influence … to land were broadly distributed, Americans could participate in capital markets using land as collateral. This ability …

forced labor income as capital. The regional distribution of wealth and the effects of the Civil war appear very different if … capital accumulation. Among others, we find that counties with a higher share of enslaved property before the Civil War or …

This paper revisits capital-skill complementarity and inequality, as in Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull and Violante (KORV …. We find strong evidence for continued capital-skill complementarity in the most recent data, and that the model continues …

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …

We summarize the economics of recycling municipal solid waste. OECD data suggest that aggregate recycling rates in … member countries have plateaued in recent decades. United States recycling rates for some materials remain low, even after … decades of learning and participation. Major new policies may be required to increase recycling rates. Aggregate recycling …

raise more debt, increase leverage, and buyback more shares, and (iii) capital investment and acquisitions increase more for …