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Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders …

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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers

Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … driven by physicians in surgical specialties. However, the duty hour reform appears to not have impacted birth outcomes. Thus …, we find that physicians tend to have worse birth outcomes than lawyers and, in this case, the work reform did little to …

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Author Country of Origin and Attention on Open Science Platforms : Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints

Fry, Caroline; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different countries of origin, particularly relative to evaluation in...

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The Impact of Bretton Woods International Capital Controls on the Global Economy and the Value of Geopolitical Stability : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ohanian, Lee E.; Restrepo-Echavarria, Paulina; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper quantifies the positive and normative impact of Bretton Woods capital controls on global and regional economic activity. A three-region DSGE capital flows accounting framework consisting of the U.S., Western Europe, and the Rest of the World (ROW) is developed to quantify capital...

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Stock Prices, Lockdowns, and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus

Davis, Steven J.; Liu, Dingqian; Sheng, Xuguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Stock prices and workplace mobility trace out striking clockwise paths in daily data from mid-February to late May 2020. Global stock prices fell 30 percent from 17 February to 12 March, before mobility declined. Over the next 11 days, stocks fell another 10 percentage points as mobility dropped...

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Preparing for a Pandemic : Accelerating Vaccine Availability

Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to...

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Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy : Lessons from the Last Half Century

Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends....

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Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes

Ilzetzki, Ethan; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate system, including parallel rates, capital controls and reserves. In line with a large recent literature, we find that the dollar has...

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Does Political Partisanship Cross Borders? Evidence from International Capital Flows

Kempf, Elisabeth; Luo, Mancy; Schäfer, Larissa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does partisan perception shape the flow of international capital? We provide evidence from two settings, syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds, to show that ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by U.S. institutional investors....

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Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Covid-19? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020

Arita, Shawn; Grant, Jason; Sydow, Sharon S.; Beckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as "resilient" to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and channels of its quantitative impacts are not clear. Using a reduced-form, gravity-based econometric model for monthly trade,...

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