Long-Term Impacts of High Temperatures on Economic Productivity
High temperature anomalies have recently been shown to have adverse short-term impacts on multiple health and socio-economic outcomes. A well established
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Travel Time Use Over Five Decades
In this paper, we use five decades of time use surveys, including the annual American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2013, to document travel time uses in
A State-Level Analysis of Okun’s Law
Okun’s law is an empirical relationship that measures the correlation between the deviation of the unemployment rate from its natural rate and the deviation of
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio,
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
This paper develops a new open-city urban simulation model capable of showing the urban form and energy consumption effects of variation in city size. The model
Amenity, Diversity and Obesity: Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
ABSTRACT. Some sources of heterogeneity among cities, i.e. age, gender, race, income, and education, have been the object of substantial inquiry. The reasons.....
Fighting the Last Economic War: Crisis and Austerity in Latin America
Political economy theory expects that changes in macroeconomic governance are often catalyzed by institutional factors, such as partisanship, elections, or IMF.....
Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective
The world is becoming more and more urbanized at every income level, and there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mega-cities in the developing.....
The Repeat Time-On-The-Market Index
We propose two new indices that measure the evolution of the time it takes a home to sell or “time-on-the-market” (TOM). The key features of both indices...........
Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of monetary policy autonomy
A central result in international macroeconomics is that a government cannot simultaneously opt for open financial markets, fixed exchange rates, and monetary....