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State Abortion Rates : The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1994

This paper uses data on abortion rates from 1974-88, to estimate two-stage least squares models with fixed state and year effects. The results indicate that implementing restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion results in lower aggregate abortion rates in-state and higher abortion rates...

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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994

Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...

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Propogation of Shocks in a High-Inflation Economy : Israel, 1980-85

Leiderman, Leonardo - 1986

-inflation economy. Do one-time inflationary shocks give rise to long-term persistence, or inertia? Do balance of payments' shocks …

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The Economy of Israel

Fischer, Stanley - 1983

The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …

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The Structure of Economic News

Bybee, Leland - 2020

We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text …

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AI and the Economy

Furman, Jason - 2018

We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …

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Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy

Chor, Davin; Li, Bingjing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high-frequency night lights data, together with measures of the trade exposure of fine grid locations constructed from Chinese firms' geo-coordinates. Exploiting within-grid variation over...

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Civil War

Blattman, Christopher - 2009

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of research into the causes and consequences of civil wars, belatedly bringing the topic into the economics mainstream. This article critically reviews this interdisciplinary...

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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Deaton, Angus - 2008

PPP-based national accounts have become an important part of the database for macroeconomists, development economists, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world...

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Comparing Greenbook and Reduced Form Forecasts using a Large Realtime Dataset

Faust, Jon - 2007

one takes account of Greenbook's advantage in evaluating the current state of the economy, neither large dataset methods …

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