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Monte, Ferdinando - 2020

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual mobility directly or indirectly connects all...

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Impacts of State Reopening Policy on Human Mobility

Nguyen, Thuy Dieu - 2020

This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. We harness cell device signal data to examine the effects of the timing and pace of reopening plans in different states. We quantify the increase in mobility...

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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020

New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...

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Will the U.S. Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Post-Docs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign Stem Phds

Ganguli, Ina - 2018

We estimate the career and location preferences of students in U.S. doctoral programs in a major STEM field – chemistry. Our analysis is based on novel survey conducted in 2017 of 1,605 current Chemistry doctoral students enrolled in the top 54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we...

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Health Insurance and the Boomerang Generation : Did the 2010 ACA Dependent Care Provision Affect Geographic Mobility and Living Arrangements Among Young Adults?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2017

We test whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to live with/near parents and to receive food assistance. Data come from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Findings indicate that the provision is associated with a 3.0 percentage...

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Macroeconomic-Driven Prepayment Risk and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Chernov, Mikhail - 2016

prepayment function from the cross section of market prices. From the implied prepayment function, we find that prepayment rates … actual prepayments, providing direct evidence of significant prepayment risk premia in mortgage-backed security prices. We … risk. We also find evidence that mortgage-backed security prices were significantly affected by Fannie Mae credit risk and …

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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...

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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...

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Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries

Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010

Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...

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The Power of the Family

Alesina, Alberto - 2010

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...

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