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作者：Bajari, P; Benkard, CL
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
摘要：We reconsider the identification and estimation of Gorman-Lancasterstyle hedonic models of demand for differentiated products in the spirit of Sherwin Rosen. We generalize Rosen's first stage to account for product characteristics that are not observed and to allow the hedonic pricing function to have a general nonseparable form. We take an alternative semiparametric approach to Rosen's second stage in which we assume that the parametric form of utility is known, but we place no restrictions o...
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作者：Oster, E
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West: as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors ( most notably Amartya Sen) have suggested that this imbalance reflects excess female mortality and have argued that as many as 100 million women are missing. This paper proposes an explanation for some of the observed over-representation of men: the hepatitis B virus. I present new evidence, consistent with an existing...
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作者：Clark, G
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：I use building workers' wages for 1209 - 2004 and the skill premium to consider the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Real wages were trendless before 1800, as would be predicted for the Malthusian era. Comparing wages with population, however, suggests that the break from the technological stagnation of the Malthusian era came around 1640, long before the classic Industrial Revolution, and even before the arrival of modern democracy in 1689. Building wages also conflict wi...
