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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2016

We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each … of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for …

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Foreign-Owned Land

Eaton, Jonathan - 1984

Land and capital serve not only as factors of production but as assets which households use as stores of value. Standard trade models typically recognize only the first role. In its role as an asset land reduces the amount of national savings available for capital investment. Foreign investment...

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The Incidence of Foreign Market Accessibility on Farmland Rental Rates

Yu, Jisang - 2020

We estimate the impact of the tariffs that U.S. export crops face on farmland rental rates. The estimation of the …

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Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities

Albouy, David - 2012

We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada's metropolitan areas. These are based off of the estimated willingness-to-pay of heterogeneous households and firms to locate in various cities, which differ in their wage levels,...

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Urban Accounting and Welfare

Desmet, Klaus - 2010

This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...

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Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas

Albouy, David - 2008

-market disequilibrium and household heterogeneity provide additional insights …

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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?

Molitor, David; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...

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The Urban Wage Premium in Historical Perspective

Butts, Kyle; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the urban wage premium in the United States from 1940 to 2010. Drawing on recent advances in the literature on selection on unobservables, we show how to control for heterogeneity in the characteristics of individuals that choose to live in cities to address endogenous sorting....

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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis

Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...

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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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