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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...

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Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets

Goldberg, Linda S.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2000

We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers … in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment …

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …

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Stepping Stone Mobility

Jovanovic, Boyan; Nyarko, Yaw - 2000

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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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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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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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kohlhase, Janet E. - 2021

The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....

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Macroeconomic Outcomes and Covid-19 : A Progress Report

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Jones, Charles I. - 2021

This paper combines data on GDP, unemployment, and Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports with data on deaths from COVID-19 to study the macroeconomic outcomes of the pandemic. We present results from an international perspective using data at the country level as well as results for...

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A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis : Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990

Rhode, Paul W.; Strumpf, Koleman S. - 2021

The Tiebout hypothesis, which states that individuals will costlessly sort themselves across local communities according to their public good preferences, is the workhorse of the local public finance literature. This paper develops a test of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in...

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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Kennan, John; Walker, James R. - 2021

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 … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

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