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作者:McCrary, Justin; Royer, Heather
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要:This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate primarily the educatio...
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作者:Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio
作者单位:Fudan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis; University of Zurich
摘要:We construct a growth model consistent with China's economic transition: high output growth, sustained returns on capital, reallocation within the manufacturing sector, and a large trade surplus. Entrepreneurial firms use more productive technologies, but due to financial imperfections they must finance investments through internal savings. State-owned firms have low productivity but survive because of better access to credit markets. High-productivity firms outgrow low-productivity firms if e...
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作者:Sargent, Thomas J.; Surico, Paolo
作者单位:New York University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; London Business School
摘要:By extending his data, we document the instability of low-frequency regression coefficients that Lucas (1980) used to express the quantity theory of money. We impute the differences in these regression coefficients to differences in monetary policies across periods. A DSGE model estimated over a subsample like Lucas's implies values of the regression coefficients that confirm Lucas's results for his sample period. But perturbing monetary policy rule parameters away from the values estimated ov...
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作者:Ostrom, Elinor
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:It is instructive to read the article that Katharine Coman published in the first issue of the American Economic Review to gain insight into the problems of collective action related to irrigation in the American West. One gains further understanding of the problems Coman identifies by using a social-ecological system (Ostrom 2007, 2009) to organize the diverse variables identified by Coman. One gains a general lesson from this analysis that changing the formal governance structure of irrigati...
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作者:Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy
作者单位:William & Mary; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Dal Bo, Pedro; Frechette, Guillaume R.
作者单位:Brown University; New York University
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作者:Stavins, Robert N.
作者单位:Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the US and other economies have grown, the carrying capacity of the planet-in regard to natural resources and environmental-quality-has become a greater concern, particularly for common-property and open-access resources. The focus of this article is on some important, unsettled problems of the commons. ...