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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2009

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2008

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities : Evidence from Amsterdam

Almagro, Milena; Domínguez-Iino, Tomás - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …

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How Does Privacy Regulation Affect Transatlantic Venture Investment? Evidence from GDPR

Jia, Jian; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine how the GDPR affected transatlantic venture investment. Using investment data from 2014 to 2019, we find that the GDPR's rollout in May 2018 led to a significant decline in US investor activity in the EU, evidenced by fewer deals and investment, especially for newer and data-related...

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Out-of-School Learning : Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills

Baumeister, Frauke; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today's global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

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Who Benefits from Place-Based Policies? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Grunau, Philipp; Hoffmann, Florian; Lemieux, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the granular wage and employment effects of a German place-based policy using a research design that leverages EU-wide rules governing program parameters at the regional level. The program subsidizes investments to create jobs with a subsidy rate that varies across labor market regions....

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Carbon Pricing and Inequality : A Normative Perspective

Bigio, Saki; Känzig, Diego R.; Sánchez, Pablo; Walsh, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Despite broad acceptance among economists, carbon taxes face persistent public resistance. We measure the sources and distribution of welfare losses from unexpected European carbon price changes by estimating their impact on consumer prices, labor income, financial wealth, and government...

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Model Uncertainty and Measures of Inequality of Opportunity

Bernardo, Giovanni; Durlauf, Steven N.; Kourtellos, Andros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Inequality of opportunity has great normative importance. This has led to a literature on measuring the part of overall inequality that is due to circumstances outside of a person's control. We contribute to such studies by evaluating the implications of uncertainty about circumstance variables...

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The Global Effects of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms

Clausing, Kimberly A.; Colmer, Jonathan; Hsiao, Allan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) policies, as currently being implemented by the EU and UK. Policy discussions have cited three motivations and one concern. CBAMs can improve domestic competitiveness in regulated markets, reduce emissions leakage to unregulated markets, and...

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