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individual economic behavior. We develop a model of housing demand with neighborhood e®ects and neighborhood choice. Modelling … neighborhoods. Estimation of the model exploits a unique data set of household data that has been augmented with contextual …, with the data coming from a special sample of the American Housing Survey. A second level is the census tract to which …
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Does the impact of environmental regulation differ by plant vintage and technology? We answer this question using annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills’ vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant...
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Recent empirical studies have established the importance of intra and inter-industry heterogeneity in investment in innovation and other outcomes. This paper examines the role of industry and technology heterogeneity in the diffusion of advanced manufacturing technologies from a simple Markovian...
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steel). We combine productivity data from the Longitudinal Research Database ( LRD ) with pollution abatement expenditures …This paper presents results for an analysis of plant-level data from three manufacturing industries (paper, oil, and … datasets maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. We use data from 1979 to 1985, considering both labor and total …
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This study uses a new data set that contains the Social Security earnings histories of parents and children in the 1984 … fathers and sons is estimated to be around 0.6 implying significantly less mobility in the U.S. than previous research …
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) within the economic census. The CBO is available as a report, special tabulations, or microdata for approved researchers. …This report describes the Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO), 1992 microdata available to researchers at the … Center for Economic Studies and the CBO survey. The Bureau of the Census has conducted the 1982, 1987, and 1992 CBOs for the …
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This paper expoloits a unique merger of air quality and county manufacturing data to quantify manufacturing's pollution …
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This paper focuses on the startup factors that lead to new firms remaining open, and if they close, the factors leading to whether the owner considered the firm successful at closure. Two independent logit models were developed for closure and success characteristics using the Bureau of the...
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The classification and aggregation of manufacturing data is vital for the analysis and reporting of economic activity …
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systems, and “hidden” costs i.e., costs that are embedded in other accounts. We use plant-level data from 55 steel mills to …
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