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Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1995

We study twenty years of monthly production data for 11 manufacturing industries in 19 countries. Using the fact that in some countries production virtually shuts down for one summer month, together with the differences in the timing of aggregate cyclical fluctuations, we are able to learn about...

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...

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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Do, Quy-Toan - 2015

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We build a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor, and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage in...

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In-Kind Taxes, Behavior, and Comparative Advantage

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2015

This paper treats taxation in kind (IKT) as an example of price regulation, emphasizing IKT-avoidance behavior, and its interactions with the other costs of price controls. This emphasis fundamentally changes efficiency conclusions, and adds new ones. IKTs do not in fact randomly sample...

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The Political Economy of Trade and Labor Mobility in a Ricardian World

Galiani, Sebastian - 2015

We explore the political economy of trade and labor mobility in a Ricardian world. We combine a Ricardian economy with a simple international political economy model as a basis for the determination of trade and labor mobility policies. We show that free trade can induce partial convergence,...

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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting

Krishna, Kala - 2014

Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...

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The Comparative Advantage of Cities

Davis, Donald R. - 2014

What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly …, their internal urban structures, and a high-dimensional theory of factor-driven comparative advantage. It predicts that … manufacturing industries. The results provide support for our theory's predictions …

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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization

Coşar, A. Kerem - 2013

the world. The theory rationalizes patterns of specialization, employment, and relative incomes observed in developing …

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Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy

Costinot, Arnaud - 2013

The theory of comparative advantage is at the core of neoclassical trade theory. Yet we know little about its …

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