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The Long-run Effects of Transportation Productivity on the US Economy
Coşar, A. Kerem; Osotimehin, Sophie; Popov, Latchezar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We quantify the aggregate, regional and sectoral impacts of transportation productivity growth on the US economy over … the period 1947-2017. Using a multi-region, multi-sector model that explicitly captures produced transportation services … as a key input to interregional trade, we find that the calibrated change in transportation productivity had a sizable …
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Productivity in the Transportation Sector
Gordon, Robert J. - 1991
productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment … data reduce the magnitude of the post-1973 productivity slowdown in transportation MFP growth from a previously reported 2 … control, and highways, do not change appreciably the pattern of postwar MFP growth in transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475182
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What’s Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?
Choe, Derrick - 2020
innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481866
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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century
Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...
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Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries
Cabra-Ruiz, Nicolas; Rozo, Sandra V.; Sviatschi, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How does forced displacement shape development in origin countries? We examine the case of Venezuela, where over seven million people have been forcibly displaced. Our study compares municipalities with different proportions of foreign-born populations before and after the international oil...
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War Mobilization and Economic Development : World War II and Structural Transformation in India
Parvathaneni, Aneesha; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can temporary wartime mobilization change the long-run development trajectory of an economy? We study how mobilization for World War II in colonial India influenced its subsequent development. From 1939 to 1945, the British colonial government purchased massive amounts of war materiel within...
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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
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