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The economic impact of migrants from Hurricane Maria

Peri, Giovanni; Rury, Derek; Wiltshire, Justin C. - 2020

Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...

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The aggregate effects of trade and migration : evidence from OECD countries

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2011

income per capita, mainly through TFP growth, and have no impact on the employment rate. The positive employment effect of …

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Gravity model applications and macroeconomic perspectives

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

natural disasters (Chapter 3); and how international integration of countries shapes economic growth and helps to contain the … integration, and economic growth (Chapter 5). …

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EU structural funds and regional income convergence : a sobering experience

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2016

makers place considerable hope into their growth stimulating funding measures to overcome current economic stagnation … identification strategy linked to modern growth theory, we find that the disbursement of EU structural funds is negatively correlated … with regional growth. Incorporating spatial dynamics and decomposing this correlation into a direct and a spatially …

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Place-based preferential tax policy and its spatial effects : evidence from India's program on industrially backward districts

Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Rafols, Radine Michelle - 2017

The Government of India initiated a program in 1994 to promote manufacturing in districts designated as backward. The way the backward districts were identified enables us to employ a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the impacts of the program. We find that the program's 5-year tax...

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The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks : evidence for Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Arteaga, Julián; Cárdenas … - 2019

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control. By providing public goods and a predictable...

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The health impacts of severe climate shocks in Colombia

Mata, Dolores de la; Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio G. - 2014

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A...

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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of weather shocks in Colombia

Romero, José Vicente; Naranjo-Saldarriaga, Sara; … - 2023

output and increases in inflation without significantly affecting total GDP growth. To further assess this result, we …

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Economic integration and growth at the margin : a space-time incremental impact analysis

Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2018

We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth … we do not observe additional income growth effects for NMS-10 border regions compared to non-border regions. The results …

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DICE-RD : an implementation of rate-related damages in the DICE model

Michaelis, Peter; Wirths, Heiko - 2019 - Preliminary version

A growing body of literature from the natural and the social sciences indicates that the rate of temperature increase is another key driver of total climate damages, next to the absolute increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial level. Nonetheless, the damage functions employed in...

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