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-at-Home-Orders (SHOs) aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19 on mobility and social interaction measures. We propose a modified … adopted the SHO, and neighbors, to the neighbor's neighbors, which we term hinterland, counties. We find that mobility in … in neighbors that share media markets with treated counties. Using directional mobility data, we decompose the spillover …
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different race is 20% lower for students. Looking at more broad measures of urban mobility, we find that students spend more …. Finally, we find correlational evidence that neighborhoods with more geographic mobility today also had more intergenerational … income mobility in the past. We hope future work will more rigorously test the hypothesis that different geographic mobility …
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Stock prices and workplace mobility trace out striking clockwise paths in daily data from mid-February to late May 2020 …. Global stock prices fell 30 percent from 17 February to 12 March, before mobility declined. Over the next 11 days, stocks … fell another 10 percentage points as mobility dropped 40 percent. From 23 March to 9 April, stocks recovered half their …
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We estimate the career and location preferences of students in U.S. doctoral programs in a major STEM field - chemistry. Our analysis is based on novel survey conducted in 2017 of 1,605 current Chemistry doctoral students enrolled in the top 54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we...
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mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking …
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Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U.S., and reviews the existing analyses by economists that attempt to measure the impacts these changes have had on the processes of technological change. It also reviews the...
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The growth of the U.S. economy over the nineteenth century was characterized by a sharp acceleration in the rate of inventive activity and a dramatic rise in the relative importance of highly specialized inventors as generators of new technological knowledge. Relying on evidence compiled from...
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Wage inequality in the United States has increased, and many suspect that the main causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology, prices, and factor supplies. The...
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