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Racial Heterogeneity in the U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence

Kim, Minki; Lee, Munseob - 2023

Structural transformation and regional convergence in U.S. income have been long-standing trends. Caselli and Coleman (2001) discovered that 60% of regional convergence between the U.S. South and North from 1940 to 1990 is due to structural transformation. Our replication confirms these robust...

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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David; Chaudhry, Azam; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … the laboratory public goods game exhibits no inter-temporal spillovers, measured time preferences should not predict …

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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data

Adda, Jérôme - 2015

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...

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The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias, State Identity, and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility

Wilson, Riley - 2022

I document a new empirical pattern of internal mobility in the United States. Namely, county-to-county migration and commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant...

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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

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Spatial Interactions

Kim, Jun Sung; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022

This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...

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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Sabirianova … - 2003

The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city and regional-specific characteristics from other sources. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we...

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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2003

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting?) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...

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