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Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

determinants and effects of the location of economic activity in geographic space. It analyses how geographical location shapes the … technology. Among the insights from this research are the role of goods and commuting market access in determining location … choices; the conditions under which the location of economic activity is characterized by multiple equilibria; the …

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The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain

Hanson, Gordon H.; Rodrik, Dani; Sandhu, Rohan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local agencies and that rely on public, private, and nonprofit organizations for policy design and implementation. We document how loosely connected vertical policy...

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Dynamic Urban Economics

Greaney, Brian; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

thousands of location pairs. Using a model of the San Francisco Bay Area, we show how forward-looking behavior, spatial …

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Are Big Cities Important for Economic Growth?

Turner, Matt; Weil, David N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Cities are often described as engines of economic growth. We assess this statement quantitatively. We focus on two mechanisms: a static agglomeration effect that makes production in bigger cities more efficient, and a dynamic effect whereby urban scale impacts the productivity of invention,...

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Macroeconomics and Climate Change

Bilal, Adrien; Stock, James H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper surveys the literature that links macroeconomics and climate change. We organize our review into three categories: (i) loss and damage, which assesses long-run economic costs and non-market impacts from climate change; (ii) mitigation and the energy transition, which evaluates the...

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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil

Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Health : Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?

Bor, Jacob H.; Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....

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Putting Quantitative Models to the Test : An Application to Trump's Trade War

Adão, Rodrigo; Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The primary motivation behind quantitative modeling in international trade and many other fields is to shed light on the economic consequences of policy changes. To help assess and potentially strengthen the credibility of such quantitative predictions we introduce an IV-based goodness-of-fit...

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Political Preferences and the Spatial Distribution of Infrastructure : Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D.; Gaubert, Cecile; Gorton, Nicole; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do political preferences shape transportation policy? We study this question in the context of California's High-Speed Rail (CHSR). Combining geographic data on votes in a referendum on the CHSR with a model of its expected economic benefits, we estimate the weight of economic and...

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A Cognitive View of Policing

Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...

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