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Duranton, Gilles - 2018

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....

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Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution : Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter

Braxton, J. Carter; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

For whom has earnings risk changed, and why? To answer these questions, we develop a filtering method that estimates parameters of an income process and recovers persistent and temporary earnings for every individual at every point in time. Our estimation flexibly allows for first and second...

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Spatial Development

Desmet, Klaus - 2009

We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...

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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...

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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011

One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....

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Local and national concentration trends in jobs and sales : the role of structural fransformation

Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - 2023

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Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales : The Role of Structural Transformation

Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...

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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized

Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to industrial hubs like Chicago or New York City....

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Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms : Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society

Godoy, Ricardo A.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure,...

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The Bolivian Hyperinflation and Stabilization

Sachs, Jeffrey - 1986

of macroeconomic policymaking in Bolivia since the 1952 Revolution. Great stress is put on the weakness of fiscal … characteristics of Bolivia's international trade, focusing both on structural features (e.g., the heavy dependence on a small number … describes the novel arrangements that Bolivia has negotiated in order to escape the severe overhang of external debt. In the …

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