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This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor …
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received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …
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We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is highly differentiated, with a variety of options that differ by credential (associates degree, bachelor's degree,...
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Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … positive increase in the rate of pay growth, holding all else equal. This linkage appears stronger in the US than in Canada …
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in the US and Canada. In the US very low birthweight males face excess mortality compared to their female counterparts. I …, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps … related, the parenting of first born boys in Canada in the first years of life is more likely to be confrontational …
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younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor …
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We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...
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