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Market Size and Trade in Medical Services

Dingel, Jonathan I.; Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Lozinski, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We measure the importance of increasing returns to scale and trade in medical services. Using Medicare claims data, we … of increasing returns and trade costs, policies to improve access to care face a proximity-concentration tradeoff …

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …

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The Modern Wholesaler : Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies

Ganapati, Sharat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Nearly half of all transactions in the $5 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of this increase is due to the growth of "superstar" firms - the largest one percent of wholesalers....

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Optimal Spatial Policies

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D.; Gaubert, Cecile - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We summarize recent methods to study optimal spatial policies. We center the discussion on policies that implement the optimal distribution of population in the presence of spatial spillovers, spatial transfers to optimally tackle redistribution between rich and poor regions, and optimal...

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Sorting to Expensive Cities

Gaubert, Cécile; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We propose a spatial equilibrium model with heterogeneous households holding general non-homothetic preferences over tradable goods and housing. In equilibrium, desirable and productive locations command high housing prices. So long as housing is a necessity, these locations are...

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The Geography of Job Tasks

Atalay, Enghin; Sotelo, Sebastian; Tannenbaum, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce new measurement tools to understand the sources of earnings differences across space. Based on the natural language employers use in job vacancy text, we develop granular measures of job tasks and of worker specialization. We find that jobs in larger commuting zones involve greater...

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Banks in Space

Oberfield, Ezra; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period, large banks expanded rapidly, mostly by adding new branches in new locations, while many small banks exited. We document that large banks sorted into the densest markets, but...

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Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States

Dray, Sacha; Landais, Camille; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a comprehensive tax on all types of property (real, personal, and financial), making it one of the first "wealth...

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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials

Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the size of the likely unofficial income of a household with a government official by the difference between the income that would be necessary to explain their observed home purchase behavior and the official income. Using unique and comprehensive administrative records on the House...

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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

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