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, however, there is no evidence of the impact of gas prices on the labor market. Using administrative employment data from 2012 …
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There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect … may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models …
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Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and reexamined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model to correct for both worker and workplace unobserved...
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innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to … fundamentals, and extractive institutions such as slavery affect innovative capacity. However, a large effect associated with being …
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. Data series for fare prices and foregone wage costs are combined to create new series on the 'total' cost of emigrant …
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We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent...
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a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we …
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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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