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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 … airports, air traffic control, and highways, do not change appreciably the pattern of postwar MFP growth in transportation …
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innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future …
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People at the top of an occupational ladder earn more partly because they have spent time on lower rungs, where they have learned something. But what precisely do they learn? There are two contrasting views: First, the Bandit model assumes that people are different, that experience reveals their...
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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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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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The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But …
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This paper combines data on GDP, unemployment, and Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports with data on deaths …
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of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in mobility costs. Our extension of the Tiebout model to incorporate … such costs yields the following comparative statics: as mobility costs fall, the heterogeneity across communities of … mobility costs have fallen over time, a natural test of the Tiebout hypothesis is to take these predictions to the data here …
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The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and...
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How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we … estimate that total cases per capita decrease by 20% for every ten percentage point fall in mobility. Addressing endogeneity …
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