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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948
Feigenbaum, James J. - 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United States fell precipitously. Although this decline is well-known and well-documented, there is surprisingly little evidence about whether it took place uniformly across the regions of the U.S. We...
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Urban Growth Shadows
Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...
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The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents
Freedman, Matthew; Khanna, Shantanu; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, the Opportunity Zone program was designed to encourage investment in distressed communities across the U.S. We examine the early impacts of the Opportunity Zone program on residents of targeted areas. We leverage restricted-access microdata from the...
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Is Physical Climate Risk Priced? Evidence from Regional Variation in Exposure to Heat Stress
Acharya, Viral V.; Johnson, Tim; Sundaresan, Suresh M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We exploit regional variations in exposure to heat stress to study if physical climate risk is priced in municipal and corporate bonds as well as in equity markets. We find that local exposure to damages related to heat stress equaling 1% of GDP is associated with municipal bond yield spreads...
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Access and Exposure to Local News Media in the Digital Era : Evidence from U.S. Media Markets
Bang, Minji; L'Heudé, Lucie; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using a new comprehensive survey of adults in large U.S. media markets we show that minority and low-skill individuals, who are heavily exposed to shocks to the local economy, typically have stronger preferences for and stronger ex- posure to local news than high-skill and white individuals. At...
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments … constrained capacity to collect and process information …
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Does Policy Communication During Covid Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal … the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations of information about the severity of the pandemic, recent actions …
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What Information Drives Asset Prices?
Ghosh, Anisha - 2017
consumption, proxies well for investors' relevant information set …
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary … countries could explain Germans' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between different categories of …
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Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest
Ba, Bocar A.; Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Rivera, Roman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, product information improved the prediction accuracy of respondents. Turning to real-life behavior, we find that mutual funds …
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