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The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …
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Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture
Gupta, Apoorv - 2020
We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural … productivity gap between the most productive and the least productive areas in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481775
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Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction
Doraszelski, Ulrich - 2017
We explore the sensitivity of the U.S. government's ongoing incentive auction to multi-license ownership by broadcasters. We document significant broadcast TV license purchases by private equity firms prior to the auction and perform a prospective analysis of the effect of ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455646
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Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet … service for all Americans ("universal access") would raise earnings-weighted labor productivity by an estimated 1.1% in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599392
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Accounting for Growth in the Age of the Internet : The Importance of Output-Saving Technical Change
Hulten, Charles - 2017
We extend the conventional Solow growth accounting model to allow innovation to affect consumer welfare directly. Our model is based on Lancaster's New Approach to Consumer Theory, in which there is a separate "consumption technology" that transforms the produced goods, measured at production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455366
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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
Chari, Anusha - 2006
We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466482
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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481465
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482703
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Investment in Preventive Care for Children of Middle Eastern Ancestry During the Trump Administration
Danagoulian, Shooshan; Fleming, Owen; Grossman, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry in the US have been targeted by anti-immigrant and counterterrorism policies and have been the focus of vitriolic political rhetoric. Despite this, lack of data identifying MENA individuals has prevented systematic evaluation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635639
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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation
Hausman, Jerry - 1999
This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are taxed by federal, state, and local governments at relatively high rates in the range of 14%-25%. The paper concludes such taxes are a much greater drain on the economy than...
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