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From Brown to Busing
Cascio, Elizabeth - 2007
An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
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The Interaction and Sequencing of Policy Reforms
Asturias, Jose - 2016
In what order should a developing country adopt policy reforms? Do some policies complement each other? Do others substitute for each other? To address these questions, we develop a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with entry and exit of firms that are monopolistic competitors. The...
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Russia and the Soviet Union Then and Now
Fischer, Stanley - 1992
The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New Economic Policy of the 19205, or NEP, have for the...
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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Levinson, Arik - 2007
Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real … may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods ("international trade"). I first show that most of the … decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than changes in the mix of …
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2015
Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457787
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Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment
Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy : Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden
Almond, Douglas - 2007
Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl...
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This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
Black, Sandra E. - 2013
Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor -...
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The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
Dinkelman, Taryn - 2016
We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989
Cramton, Peter C. - 1995
It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...
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