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and wide spread distributed. This study here analyze effects of lockdowns of different duration is some European countries … diseases in society, but empirical results here suggest that in the presence of vast pandemics a longer duration of full … economic systems compared to a shorter length of lockdown. In fact, lockdowns of longer duration have generated negative …
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This paper challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity may have contributed less than previously thought for the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because when parents make choices over the quantity and quality...
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In the cross-country literature, cognitive skills are robust predictors of economic growth. We investigate claims by psychologists that the same is true at the state level. In a variety of specifications using four proxies for average state IQ used in the psychology literature, little evidence...
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Employing a 'factor-content' model that relates sectoral growth to regional factor endowments, we find that 1) U.S. state factor endowments are reasonably strong correlates of cross-state sectoral growth in value-added, with patterns that accord well with intuition; 2) that inter-sectoral...
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