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作者：Carrell, Scott E.; West, James E.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; United States Department of Defense; United States Air Force; United States Air Force Academy
摘要：In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the postsecondary environment, scores on student evaluations of professors are typically used to measure teaching quality. We possess unique data that allow us to measure relative student performance in mandatory follow-on classes. We compare metrics that capture these three different notions of instructional quality and present evidence t...
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作者：Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel; Owens, Raymond, III
作者单位：Princeton University; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond
摘要：Using data compiled from concentrated residential urban revitalization programs implemented in Richmond, Virginia, between 1999 and 2004, we study residential externalities. We estimate that housing externalities decrease by half approximately every 1,000 feet. On average, land prices in neighborhoods targeted for revitalization rose by 2-5 percent at an annual rate above those in a control neighborhood. These increases translate into land value gains of between $2 and $6 per dollar invested i...
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作者：Greenstone, Michael; Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：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 have similar trends in TFP prior to the new plant opening. Five years after the opening, incumbent plants' TFP is 12 percent higher in winning counties. This productivity spillover is larger for plants sharing similar labor and...
