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Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...
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Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, little is known about their effects on firearm-related crime or deaths. Using data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, we find no evidence that...
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Market exchange is subject to an endogenously determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. We construct a model in which utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge: autarky (with...
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This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...
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-at-Home-Orders (SHOs) aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19 on mobility and social interaction measures. We propose a modified … adopted the SHO, and neighbors, to the neighbor's neighbors, which we term hinterland, counties. We find that mobility in … in neighbors that share media markets with treated counties. Using directional mobility data, we decompose the spillover …
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different race is 20% lower for students. Looking at more broad measures of urban mobility, we find that students spend more …. Finally, we find correlational evidence that neighborhoods with more geographic mobility today also had more intergenerational … income mobility in the past. We hope future work will more rigorously test the hypothesis that different geographic mobility …
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Recent years have seen an unprecedented growth and geographic dispersion in international student mobility. In this … mobility - the human capital model and the migration model - across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest …
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This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …-device-based metrics. Soon (four days) after reopening, we observe a 6% to 8% mobility increase. In addition, we find that temperature and …
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This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …
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New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator - if not the principal transmission vehicle - of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...
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