Search Results - "The Journal of economic perspectives"

Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution by Banzhaf, Spencer, Ma, Lala, Timmins, Christopher

“…The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation…”
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor by Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual

“…We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in…”
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election by Allcott, Hunt, Gentzkow, Matthew

“…Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social…”
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The Economic Implications of Housing Supply by Glaeser, Edward, Gyourko, Joseph

“…In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better understand the distribution of home prices,…”
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Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions by Syverson, Chad

“…This article assesses several aspects of recent macroeconomic market power research. These include the ways market power is defined and measured; the use of…”
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Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn by Lerner, Josh, Nanda, Ramana

“…Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated…”
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The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation by Athey, Susan, Imbens, Guido W.

“…In this paper, we discuss recent developments in econometrics that we view as important for empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions. We…”
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress by Lundberg, Shelly, Stearns, Jenna

“…Women are still a minority in the economics profession. By the mid-2000s, just under 35 percent of PhD students and 30 percent of assistant professors were…”
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The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare by Amiti, Mary, Redding, Stephen J., Weinstein, David E.

“…We examine conventional approaches to evaluating the economic impact of protectionist trade policies. We illustrate these conventional approaches by applying…”
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Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence by Allcott, Hunt, Lockwood, Benjamin B., Taubinsky, Dmitry

“…Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a good idea? If so, how high should they be?…”
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Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach by Mullainathan, Sendhil, Spiess, Jann

“…Machines are increasingly doing “intelligent” things. Face recognition algorithms use a large dataset of photos labeled as having a face or not to estimate a…”
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Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization by Berry, Steven, Gaynor, Martin, Morton, Fiona Scott

“…This article considers the recent literature on firm markups in light of both new and classic work in the field of industrial organization. We detail the…”
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A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics by Glaeser, Edward, Huang, Wei, Ma, Yueran, Shleifer, Andrei

“…Chinese housing prices rose by over 10 percent per year in real terms between 2003 and 2014 and are now between two and ten times higher than the construction…”
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On DSGE Models by Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin S., Trabandt, Mathias

“…The outcome of any important macroeconomic policy change is the net effect of forces operating on different parts of the economy. A central challenge facing…”
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Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects by Bailey, Michael, Cao, Rachel, Kuchler, Theresa, Stroebel, Johannes, Wong, Arlene

“…Social networks can shape many aspects of social and economic activity: migration and trade, job-seeking, innovation, consumer preferences and sentiment,…”
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The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? by Mokyr, Joel, Vickers, Chris, Ziebarth, Nicolas L.

“…Technology is widely considered the main source of economic progress, but it has also generated cultural anxiety throughout history. The developed world is now…”
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Informational Autocrats by Guriev, Sergei, Treisman, Daniel

“…In recent decades, dictatorships based on mass repression have largely given way to a new model based on the manipulation of information. Instead of…”
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Finance and Business Cycles: The Credit-Driven Household Demand Channel by Mian, Atif, Sufi, Amir

“…What is the role of the financial sector in explaining business cycles? This question is as old as the field of macroeconomics, and an extensive body of…”
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Identification in Macroeconomics by Nakamura, Emi, Steinsson, Jón

“…This paper discusses empirical approaches macroeconomists use to answer questions like: What does monetary policy do? How large are the effects of fiscal…”
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Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities? by Lagakos, David

“…This article provides an overview of the growing literature on urban-rural gaps in the developing world. I begin with recent evidence on the size of the gaps…”
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