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The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility : Evidence from World War II

Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security...

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Place-Based Economic Development and Long-Run Firm Employment and Sales : Evidence from American Indian Reservations

Aguilar, Joseph A.; Akee, Randall; Mykerezi, Elton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine how one of the largest U.S. place-based economic development programs, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, with annual revenues in excess of \$40 billion, affects local firm total employment and sales through direct channels and through IGRA's effects on adjacent...

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...

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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We identify negative spillovers exerted by large, successful manufacturing plants on other local production facilities in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. Our identification strategy exploits the...

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The Wandering Scholars : Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

Lerner, Joshua; Manley, Henry J.; Stein, Carolyn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discoveries never realize their potential social benefits. Looking across...

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The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies : A Bird's-Eye View

Lehnert, Patrick; Dell, Madison; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment...

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Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers

Hyman, Benjamin G.; Kovak, Brian K.; Leive, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Wage insurance provides income support to displaced workers who find reemployment at a lower wage. We analyze wage insurance in the context of the U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program by merging linked employer-employee Census data to TAA petitions and leveraging a discontinuity in...

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

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The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment

Bhuller, Manudeep; Ferraro, Domenico; Kostøl, Andreas … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … indicate that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as 14% due to the broadband internet expansion …

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …

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