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The effect of education on crime: Evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports

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L Lochner… - 2001 - nber.org
We estimate the effect of high school graduation on participation in criminal activity
accounting for endogeneity of schooling. We begin by analyzing the effect of high school
graduation on incarceration using Census data. Instrumental variable estimates using ...
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Estimating the social return to higher education: evidence from longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data

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E Moretti - 2002 - nber.org
Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social return to education may
exceed the private return. In this paper, I estimate spillovers from college education by
comparing wages for otherwise similar individuals who work in cities with different shares ...
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Mother's education and the intergenerational transmission of human capital: Evidence from college openings

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J Currie… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We examine the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using Vital Statistics
Natality data for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four channels through
which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking, ...
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Workers' education, spillovers, and productivity: evidence from plant-level production functions

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E Moretti - American Economic Review, 2004 - JSTOR
I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using
a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large
increases in the share of college graduates rises more than the productivity of similar ...
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Human capital externalities in cities

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E Moretti - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Abstract What is the effect of an increase in the overall level of human capital on the
economy of a city? Although much is known about the private return to education, much less
is known about the more important question of what happens to productivity, wages and ...
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Peers at work

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A Mas… - 2006 - nber.org
We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the
productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a
high productivity worker could lower the effort of incumbent workers because of free riding; ...
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Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

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K Milligan, E Moretti… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Many studies document an association between schooling and civic participation, but none
credibly investigate causal links. We explore the effect of extra schooling induced through
compulsory schooling laws on the likelihood of becoming politically involved in the United ...
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Do voters affect or elect policies? Evidence from the US House

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DS Lee, E Moretti… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2004 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract There are two fundamentally different views of the role of elections in policy
formation. In one view, voters can affect candidates' policy choices: competition for votes
induces politicians to move toward the center. In this view, elections have the effect of ...
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Biology as destiny? Short and long-run determinants of intergenerational transmission of birth weight

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J Currie… - 2005 - nber.org
Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between
generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in
health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status. We examine inter-generational ...
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The demand for sons: Evidence from divorce, fertility, and shotgun marriage

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GB Dahl… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child
custody, marriage, shotgun marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and
fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are significantly more likely to ...
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Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a'Million Dollar Plant'Increase Welfare?

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M Greenstone… - 2003 - nber.org
Increasingly, local governments compete by offering substantial subsidies to industrial
plants to locate within their jurisdictions. This paper uses a novel research design to
examine the consequences of successfully bidding for a plant on county-level labor ...
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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap

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A Ichino… - 2006 - nber.org
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than
among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the
probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, ...
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Why do most Italian youths live with their parents? Intergenerational transfers and household structure

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M Manacorda… - Journal of the European Economic …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract More than 80% of Italian men aged 18–30 live with their parents. We argue that one
contributing factor to this remarkably high rate of cohabitation is parents' tastes for
coresidence. In order to investigate the role of parental preferences, we estimate the effect ...
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The demand for sons

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GB Dahl… - Review of Economic Studies, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Do parents have preferences over the gender of their children, and if so, does this have
negative consequences for daughters versus sons? In this paper, we show that child gender
affects the marital status, family structure, and fertility of a significant number of American ...
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Can free entry be inefficient? Fixed commissions and social waste in the real estate industry

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CT Hsieh… - 2002 - nber.org
Real estate agents in the US typically charge a 6 percent commission, regardless of the
price of the house sold. As a consequence, the commission fee from selling a house will
differ dramatically across cities depending on the average price of housing, although the ...
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Real wage inequality

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E Moretti - 2008 - nber.org
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage
of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. I show that from
1980 to 2000, college graduates have experienced relatively larger increases in cost of ...
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Identifying agglomeration spillovers: evidence from million dollar plants

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M Greenstone, R Hornbeck… - 2008 - nber.org
We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large new
manufacturing plant on the total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same
county. Articles in the corporate real estate journal Site Selection reveal the county where ...
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Social networks and migrations: Italy 1876-1913

E Moretti - International Migration Review, 1999 - JSTOR
The standard neoclassical economic model of migration introduced by Todaro predicts 1)
that migration occurs when the expected net present value of earnings from migrating,
weighted by the probability of employment in the destination country, is positive; and 2) ...
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Identifying agglomeration spillovers: Evidence from winners and losers of large plant openings

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M Greenstone, R Hornbeck… - Journal of Political Economy, 2010 - JSTOR
We quantify agglomeration spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP)
among incumbent plants in “winning” counties that attracted a large manufacturing plant and
“losing” counties that were the new plant's runner-up choice. Winning and losing counties ...
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[PDF] Do microfinance programs help families insure consumption against illness?

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P Gertler, DI Levine… - 2003 - escholarship.org
Abstract: Families in developing countries face enormous financial risks from major illness
both in terms of the cost of medical care and the loss in income associated with reduced
labor supply and productivity. We test whether access to microfinancial savings and ...
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The dynamics of criminal behavior: Evidence from weather shocks

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B Jacob, L Lefgren… - 2004 - nber.org
The persistence of criminal activity is well documented. While such serial correlation may be
evidence of social interactions in the production of crime, it may also be due to the
persistence of unobserved determinants of crime. Moreover, there are good reasons to ...
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Did Iraq cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, bribes, and the oil for food program

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CT Hsieh… - 2005 - nber.org
From 1997 through early 2003, the United Nations Oil for Food Program allowed Iraq to
export oil in exchange for humanitarian supplies. We measure the extent to which this
program was corrupted by Iraq's attempts to deliberately set the price of its oil below ...
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Local labor markets

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E Moretti - Handbook of Labor Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market
outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general
equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local ...
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Mother's education and the intergenerational transmission of human capital: evidence from college openings and longitudinal data

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J Currie… - 2002 - nber.org
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital
Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential
channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal ...
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Social learning and peer effects in consumption: Evidence from movie sales

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E Moretti - The Review of Economic Studies, 2011 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Using box-office data for all movies released between 1982 and 2000, I quantify
how much the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive
from their peers, when quality is ex ante uncertain. In the presence of social learning, we ...
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[CITATION] Estimating the social return to education: evidence from repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal data

E Moretti - Center for Labor Economics Working Paper, 1999
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[PDF] Social returns to education and human capital externalities: evidence from cities

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E Moretti - Centre for Labour Economics, Working Paper, 1998 - darp.lse.ac.uk
Abstract Private and social returns to education may differ in the presence of externalities. In
this paper, I estimate the external return to education by comparing wages for otherwise
similar individuals who work in cities with higher and lower average levels of education. A ...
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Human capital spillovers in manufacturing: evidence from plant-level production functions

E Moretti - 2002 - nber.org
I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant-level
production functions. I use a unique firm worker matched dataset, obtained by combining the
Census of Manufacturers with the Census of Population. After controlling for a plant's own ...
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Do wages compensate for risk of unemployment? Parametric and semiparametric evidence from seasonal jobs

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E Moretti - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2000 - Springer
Due to unique institutional and technological factors, seasonal agricultural jobs are
characterized by much higher risk of unemployment than similar permanent jobs. I estimate
compensating differentials for risk of unemployment and compare those with ...
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Inequality at work: The effect of peer salaries on job satisfaction

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D Card, A Mas, E Moretti… - 2010 - nber.org
We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to
information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on
individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of ...
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Extreme weather events, mortality and migration

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O Deschenes… - 2007 - nber.org
We estimate the effect of extreme weather on life expectancy in the US. Using high
frequency mortality data, we find that both extreme heat and extreme cold result in
immediate increases in mortality. However, the increase in mortality following extreme ...
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Do microfinance programs help families insure consumption against illness?

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P Gertler, DI Levine… - Health economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Families in developing countries face enormous financial risks from major illness
both in terms of the cost of medical care and the loss in income associated with reduced
labor supply and productivity. We test whether access to microfinancial savings and ...
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[PDF] Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure Why Do Most Italian Youths Live with Their Parents?

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M Manacorda… - 2002 - escholarship.org
Abstract: Eighty five percent of Italian men aged 18-33 live with their parents. In this paper
we use micro data from the Bank of Italy Survey of Households' Income and Wealth from
1989 to 1998 to explain this remarkably high rate of cohabitation. We argue that Italian ...
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Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior

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E Moretti… - Journal of Human resources, 2011 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract A pervasive problem in estimating the costs of pollution is that optimizing
individuals may compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure, resulting
in estimates that understate the full welfare costs. To account for this issue, measurement ...
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Is social capital the capital of the poor? The role of family and community in helping insure living standards against health shocks

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P Gertler, DI Levine… - CESifo Economic Studies, 2006 - CESifo Group
Abstract We estimate the effect of social capital on the ability of households to insure
consumption after unexpected negative shocks. Many theoretical models argue that strong
ties to extended family members and to one's community help protect families when an ...
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[CITATION] Does Education Reduce Participation in Criminal Activities?

E Moretti - symposium on “The Social Costs of Inadequate …, 2005
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[PDF] The effect of education on crime: evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports

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L Lochner… - American Economic Review, forthcoming, 2003 - Citeseer
Abstract We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity accounting
for endogeneity of schooling. We first analyze the effect of schooling on incarceration using
Census data and changes in state compulsory attendance laws over time as an ...
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Does voting technology affect election outcomes? Touch-screen voting and the 2004 Presidential election

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D Card… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007 - MIT Press
Abstract Critics argue that electronic voting is vulnerable to fraud. We test whether voting
technology affected electoral outcomes in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. We find
a positive correlation between use of electronic voting and George Bush vote share. The ...
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Extreme weather events, mortality, and migration

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O Deschenes… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009 - MIT Press
Abstract We estimate the effect of extreme weather on life expectancy in the United States.
Using high-frequency data, we find that both extreme heat and cold result in immediate
increases in mortality. The increase in mortality following extreme heat appears mostly ...
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Competition in imperfect markets: does it help California's Medicaid mothers?

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A Aizer, J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
Poor and uneducated patients may not know what health care is desirable and, if fully
insured, have little incentive to minimize the costs of their care. Partly in response to these
concerns, most states have moved a substantial portion of their Medicaid caseloads out of ...
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[PDF] Local Multipliers

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E Moretti - American Economic Review. Papers and …, 2010 - emlab.berkeley.edu
The magnitude of local multipliers is important for regional economic development policies.
State and local governments spend considerable amounts of taxpayer money on incentives
to attract new businesses to their jurisdictions. Such location-based incentives are ...
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An information-based sample-selection estimation model of agricultural workers' choice between piece-rate and hourly work

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A Golan, E Moretti… - American Journal of …, 1999 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
The problem of sample selection arises frequently in agricultural economics, such as in
studies of individuals' wages or labor supply. With large data sets of" well-behaved" data, the
traditional (parametric and semiparametric) approaches perform well. These models ...
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Does managed care hurt health? evidence from medicaid mothers

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A Aizer, J Currie… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007 - MIT Press
Abstract Most Americans are now in some form of managed care plan that restricts access to
services in order to reduce costs. It is difficult to determine whether these restrictions affect
health because individuals and firms self-select into managed care. We investigate the ...
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Did the Introduction of Food Stamps Affect Birth Outcomes in California?

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J Currie… - … Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as …, 2008 - books.google.com
Do welfare programs that raise the income of poor mothers affect infant mortality? Over the
1960s, United States infant mortality fell dramatically. The rate for whites fell from twenty-
three to seventeen per one thousand, while the African American rate fell from forty-three ...
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[CITATION] Does education improve citizenship?

K Milligan, E Moretti… - 2003
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[HTML] Social returns to human capital

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E Moretti - 2005 - nber.org
My research focuses on different areas in applied microeconomics. One of these areas is the
economics of education. My work on this area centers on the issue of social returns to
human capital. After 40 years of research on the relationship between education and ...
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Efficiency wages, deferred payments, and direct incentives in agriculture

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E Moretti… - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2002 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Empirical evidence from agricultural labor markets is consistent with efficiency-
wage theory and inconsistent with several alternative explanations. According to this theory,
the higher wage or deferred payment (benefits) that direct-hire growers pay relative to that ...
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The geography of giving: The effect of corporate headquarters on local charities

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D Card, KF Hallock… - Journal of Public Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Does the presence of corporate headquarters in a city affect the incomes of local charities?
To address this question we combine data on the head office locations of publicly traded US
firms with information on the receipts of local charitable organizations. Cities like Houston, ...
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Racial bias in the 2008 presidential election

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A Mas… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
We survey the evidence on whether racial atti tudes negatively affected Barack Obama's
vote share in the 2008 presidential election. There is some evidence pointing toward this
possibility. First, the increase in the Democratic vote share in the presidential election ...
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[CITATION] Workers' Education

E Moretti - Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from, 2004
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A small-sample estimator for the sample-selection model

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A Golan, E Moretti… - Econometric Reviews, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract A semiparametric estimator for evaluating the parameters of data generated under
a sample selection process is developed. This estimator is based on the generalized
maximum entropy estimator and performs well for small and ill-posed samples. ...
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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

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J Currie, M Greenstone… - 2011 - nber.org
We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than
focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a
Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our “difference in differences” ...
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Winning by losing: Evidence on overbidding in mergers

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U Malmendier, E Moretti… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Do acquiring companies profit from acquisitions? Or do acquiring CEOs overbid
and destroy shareholder value? Answering this question empirically is difficult since the
hypothetical counterfactual is hard to determine. While negative stock reactions to the ...
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[CITATION] jDo Voters Affect or Elect Policies

DS Lee, E Moretti… - Evidence from the US House, k, 2004
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[CITATION] VThe Demand for Sons

GB Dahl… - V Review of Economic Studies, 2008
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[PDF] Private and Social Returns to Education

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E Moretti - Rivista di Politica Economica, 2006 - rivistapoliticaeconomica.it
L'investimento in capitale umano genera rendimenti privati significativi. Perché lo Stato
sussida un investimento che ha benefici privati notevoli? In questo articolo, esploro i motivi
teorici che giustificano l'intervento pubblico nel campo dell'istruzione, con attenzione ...
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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility

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A Ichino, L Karabarbounis… - Economic Inquiry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the
degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has
been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its ...
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[CITATION] Extreme Weather Events

O Deschenes… - Mortality and Migration, Mimeograph, 2007
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Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables

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L Lochner… - 2011 - nber.org
In many empirical studies, researchers seek to estimate causal relationships using
instrumental variables. When only one valid instrumental variable is available, researchers
are limited to estimating linear models, even when the true model may be non-linear. In ...
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[CITATION] rCan Free Entry be Ineffi cient

CT Hsieh… - Fixed Com* missions and Social Waste in the Real …, 2003
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[CITATION] Workers' Education, Externalities and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions

E Moretti… - 1999 - Center for Labor Economics, …
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[CITATION] Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

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M Kevin, M Enrico… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004
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Bayesian learning and the pricing of new information: Evidence from prediction markets

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DS Lee… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
Political prediction markets offer an ideal set ting to test how investors learn, and how learn
ing affects market prices. Prediction markets consist of contracts that pay one dollar in the
event of a particular candidate winning an elec tion. These contracts are bought and sold ...
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[PDF] Minimum wage laws lower some agricultural wages

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E Moretti… - 2000 - escholarship.org
Minimum wage legislation affects the agricultural sector of the economy differently than other
sectors. We show that an increase in the federal minimum wage lowers the wage of some
agricultural worker and causes nonagricultural workers to move to agriculture. 1 We ...
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[CITATION] Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of

J Currie… - 2003
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[CITATION] Bidding for industrial plants: Does winning a 'million dollar plant'increase welfare? Processed

M Greenstone… - University of California Berkeley, 2004
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[CITATION] Social Migrations and Networks: Italy 1889-1913

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E Moretti - International Migration Review, 1999
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[CITATION] Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies

DS Lee, E Moretti… - Evidence from the, 2004
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[CITATION] Identifying agglomeration spillovers: Evidence from million dollar plants

G Michael, H Rick… - NBER Working Paper, 2008
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[CITATION] The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from

L Lochner… - 2001
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[BOOK] Uncovering Rent-Seeking and Social Waste: A Parable from the Real Estate Market

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CT Hsieh… - 2002 - princeton.edu
There is a growing realization that rent-seeking is pervasive in many societies and these
activities are important in explaining many economic outcomes. Rent-seeking can take
many forms, from lobbying and bribing for protection and exclusive licenses, to competing ...
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[CITATION] Peers at Work

M Alexandre… - 2006 - National Bureau of Economic …
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[PDF] Minimum Wage Laws Lower Some Agricultural Wages

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E Moretti - 1999 - areweb.berkeley.edu
Minimum wage legislation affects the agricultural sector of the economy differently than other
sectors. We show that an increase in the federal minimum wage lowers the wage of some
agricultural worker and causes nonagricultural workers to move to agriculture. 1 ...
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[CITATION] Human Capital Externalities in Cities, Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics

E Moretti - 2004 - Amsterdam: North-Holland
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[CITATION] Peers at Work

E Moretti… - 2006 - mimeo, UC Berkeley and NBER
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[CITATION] Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a

M Greenstone… - Million Dollar Plant” increase Welfare, 2004
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Use of Public Transfer Programs and Privat Aid by Farm Workers

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E Moretti… - … Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract Legal status affects the use of public welfare and insurance and private
assistance programs by families of farm workers. Families of unauthorized immigrants are
more likely to use public medical assistance and less likely to use other public transfer ...
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[CITATION] Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Inter-Generational Correlations in Birth Weight

J Currie… - 2005 - mimeo
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[CITATION] VThe Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self% ReportsV

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L Lance… - American Economic Review, American Economic …, 2004
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[CITATION] Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a'Million Dollar Plant'Increase Welfare? NBER Working Paper No. 9844, Cambridge, MA

M Greenstone… - 2003
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[CITATION] Short and long-run effects of the introduction of food stamps on birth outcomes in California

J Currie… - Society of Labor Economists Meeting, Toronto Canada, …, 2003
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[CITATION] Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption

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the source. Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities

D Albouy, J Butler, D Card, P Courant, L Davis… - 2008 - Citeseer
... Lucas Davis , Morris Davis , Gilles Duranton , All Eberts , Richard Florida , Rob Gillezeau , Michael
Greenstone , Joseph Gyourko , Jim Hines , John Hoehn , Juanna Joensen , Matthew Kahn , Pat
Kline , Jed Kolko , François Ortalo-magné , Enrico Moretti , Olivier Deschenes ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Peers at Work.”

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[CITATION] The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce

GB Dahl… - 2004
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The effect of education on crime

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L Lochner… - 2001 - orbison.exp.sis.pitt.edu
This paper considers the effects of high school education on participation in criminal activity,
using Census data and additional self-reported evidence. Biggest impacts of graduation are
associated with crimes in the form of murder, assault, and motor vehicle theft. This ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming 2004.“Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence from Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Sectional Data.”

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[CITATION] VThe Effect of Education on Criminal Activity: Evidence from Prison Inmates

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Credibility and Policy Convergence: Evidence from US House Roll Call Voting Records

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Traditional models of politician behavior predict complete or partial policy convergence,
whereby electoral competition compels partisan politicians to choose positions more
moderate than their most-preferred policies. Alternatively, if politicians cannot overcome ...
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[PDF] Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority

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P Kline… - 2011 - tinbergen.nl
Abstract We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious place based economic
development policies in US history: the Tennessee Valley Authority. We first conduct an
evaluation of the dynamic effects of the TVA on local economies in the six decades since ...
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