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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States
Nordhaus, William D. - 2006
The year 2005 brought record numbers of hurricanes and storm damages to the United States. Was this a foretaste of … may be underestimated by current storm models. Fourth, 2005 appears to have been a quadruple outlier, involving a record … landfall in the United States, and an intense storm hitting the most vulnerable high-value region in the country …
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Taken by Storm : Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration
Mahajan, Parag - 2017
How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less attractive vis-à-vis migration destinations, fixed costs can prevent increased migration. We examine migration responses to hurricanes, which reduce the attractiveness of origin...
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The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts
Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and...
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Social Distancing and Social Capital : Why U.S. Counties Respond Differently to COVID-19
Ding, Wenzhi - 2020
Since social distancing is the primary strategy for slowing the spread of many diseases, understanding why U.S. counties respond differently to COVID-19 is critical for designing effective public policies. Using daily data from about 45 million mobile phones to measure social distancing we...
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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...
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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces
Helliwell, John F. - 1996
The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the United States. The ethnic categories people choose to describe themselves are as important as regional differences, but much less important than education, in explaining...
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Social Capital I : Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper--the first in a series of two papers that use data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook to study social capital--we measure and analyze three types of social capital by ZIP code in the United States: (i) connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low vs....
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Social Capital II : Determinants of Economic Connectedness
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Low levels of social interaction across class lines have generated widespread concern and are associated with worse outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility. Here, we analyze the determinants of cross-class interaction using data from Facebook, building upon the analysis in the...
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The economics of place-making policies
Glaeser, Edward L. (contributor);  … - 2008
Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not...
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