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作者:Akerlof, GA
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Duggan, J; Roberts, J
作者单位:University of Rochester; University of Rochester; University of Toronto
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作者:Bosch-Domènech, A; Montalvo, JG; Nagel, R; Satorra, A
作者单位:Pompeu Fabra University
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作者:Auerbach, AJ; Gordon, RH
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California San Diego
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作者:Shiue, CH
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要:Trade has been considered a condition for growth and development, a view that might have merits in explaining the rise of the Western world. I use a new data set from archival sources of eighteenth-century China to revisit this question. This analysis suggests previous studies of market integration, which attribute much growth to a reduction in transport costs, have overestimated these effects. I find the overall level of market integration in China was higher than previously thought, and, int...
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作者:Pinegar, JM
作者单位:Brigham Young University
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作者:Green, EJ
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago
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作者:Konrad, KA; Künemund, H; Lommerud, KE; Robledo, JR
作者单位:Free University of Berlin; Free University of Berlin; University of Bergen
摘要:We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other. These strategic considerations lead to an equilibrium location pattern with firstborn children locating further away from their parents than second-born children. We also analyze the location choices empirically using German data...
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作者:Kiyotaki, N; Moore, J
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Edinburgh
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作者:Hendricks, L
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:This paper offers new evidence on the sources of cross-country income differences. It exploits the idea that observing immigrant workers from different countries in the same labor market provides an opportunity to estimate their human-capital endowments. These estimates suggest that human and physical capital account for only a fraction of cross-country income differences. For countries below 40 percent of U.S. output per worker, less than half of the output gap relative to the United States i...