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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …

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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948

Feigenbaum, James J. - 2018

In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United States fell precipitously. Although this decline is well-known and well-documented, there is surprisingly little evidence about whether it took place uniformly across the regions of the U.S. We...

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Payments Crises and Consequences

Chen, Qian - 2020

Banking-system shutdowns during contractions scar economies. Four times in the last forty years, governors suspended payments from state-insured depository institutions. Suspensions of payments in Nebraska (1983), Ohio (1985), and Maryland (1985), which were short and occurred during expansions,...

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Social Proximity to Capital : Implications for Investors and Firms

Kuchler, Theresa - 2020

effect of geographic proximity. Social connections have the largest influence on investments of small investors with … concentrated holdings as well as on investments in firms with a low market capitalization and little analyst coverage. We also find … firms with little analyst coverage. We find no evidence that investors generate differential returns from investments in …

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Misinformation During a Pandemic

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020

Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality -- not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first...

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Urban Growth Shadows

Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...

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The Value of Terroir : Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sale Prices

Cross, Robin - 2011

We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...

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One TV, One Price?

Imbs, Jean - 2009

We use a unique dataset on television prices across European countries and regions to investigate the sources of differences in price levels. Our findings are as follows: (i) Quality is a crucial determinant of price differences. Even in an integrated economic zone as Europe, rich economies tend...

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$2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium

Doyle, Joseph J, Jr - 2006

There are surprisingly few estimates of the effect of sales taxes on retail prices, especially at the firm level. Further, along both sides of a state border, a change in one state's sales tax can shed light on the nature of competition, as a subset of firms effectively experiences a change in...

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The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents

Freedman, Matthew; Khanna, Shantanu; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, the Opportunity Zone program was designed to encourage investment in distressed communities across the U.S. We examine the early impacts of the Opportunity Zone program on residents of targeted areas. We leverage restricted-access microdata from the...

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