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The red queen problem — innovation in the DoD and intelligence community
Published: 18/10/2017“…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ” — The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defe ... Read moreSource: blogs.berkeley.edu -
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Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development -- by Pei-Ju Liao, Ping Wang, Yin-Chi Wang, Chong Kee Yip
Published: 17/10/2017Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how imp ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls -- by Graham Beattie, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight, Ananya Sen
Published: 17/10/2017Do news media bias content in favor of advertisers? We examine the relationship between advertising by auto manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage of car safety recalls. This context allow ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org
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Reported Preference vs. Revealed Preference: Evidence from the Propensity to Spend Tax Rebates -- by Jonathan A. Parker, Nicholas S. Souleles
Published: 17/10/2017We evaluate the consistency of two methods for estimating the effect of an economic policy: i) surveying people to report the change in their behavior caused by the policy, ii) inferring this change u ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Does Capital Scarcity Matter? -- by Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry, Racha Moussa
Published: 17/10/2017This paper quantifies the welfare impact of a permanent increase in the level of per capita income brought about by a temporary increase in the growth rate of GDP per capita following capital account ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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The Effects of Perceived Disease Risk and Access Costs on Infant Immunization -- by Jessamyn Schaller, Lisa Schulkind, Teny Maghakian Shapiro
Published: 17/10/2017This paper examines the determinants of parental decisions about infant immunization. Using the exact timing of vaccination relative to birth, we estimate the effects of local pertussis outbreaks occu ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org
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Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices. -- by James B. Bushnell, Jonathan E. Hughes, Aaron Smith
Published: 17/10/2017Grain shippers and political figures in North Dakota and nearby states have voiced concern that the dramatic increases in shipments of crude oil by rail have caused service delays and higher costs. We ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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The Economics of Scale-Up -- by Jonathan M.V. Davis, Jonathan Guryan, Kelly Hallberg, Jens Ludwig
Published: 17/10/2017Most randomized controlled trials (RCT) of social programs test interventions at modest scale. While the hope is that promising programs will be scaled up, we have few successful examples of this scal ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments -- by Daniel J. Benjamin, Don A. Moore, Matthew Rabin
Published: 17/10/2017This paper describes results of a pair of incentivized experiments on biases in judgments about random samples. Consistent with the Law of Small Numbers (LSN), participants exaggerated the likelihood ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org
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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth -- by Philippe Aghion, Benjamin F. Jones, Charles I. Jones
Published: 17/10/2017This paper examines the potential impact of artificial intelligence (A.I.) on economic growth. We model A.I. as the latest form of automation, a broader process dating back more than 200 years. Electr ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets -- by Agha Ali Akram, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Published: 17/10/2017Rural to urban migration is an integral part of the development process, but there is little evidence on how out-migration transforms rural labor markets. Emigration could benefit landless village res ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation -- by Emmanuel Farhi, Jean Tirole
Published: 17/10/2017Traditional banking is built on four pillars: SME lending, access to public liquidity, deposit insurance, and prudential supervision. This vision has been shattered by repeated bailouts of shadow fina ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org
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Why Some Times Are Different: Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises -- by Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer
Published: 17/10/2017Analysis based on a new measure of financial distress for 24 advanced economies in the postwar period shows substantial variation in the aftermath of financial crises. This paper examines the role tha ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Sparse Signals in the Cross-Section of Returns -- by Alexander M. Chinco, Adam D. Clark-Joseph, Mao Ye
Published: 17/10/2017This paper applies the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) to make rolling 1-minute-ahead return forecasts using the entire cross section of lagged returns as candidate predictors. ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Computerization and Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the United States -- by Gaetano Basso, Giovanni Peri, Ahmed Rahman
Published: 17/10/2017The changes in technology that took place in the US during the last three decades, mainly due to the introduction of computerization and automation, have been characterized as "routine-substituting." ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org
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Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Duree -- by Raphael Franck, Stelios Michalopoulos
Published: 17/10/2017During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference -- by Isaac Sorkin
Published: 17/10/2017This paper estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to-employer transitions in U.S. administrative data. The paper uses a tool from numerical linear algebra to me ... Read moreSource: papers.nber.org -
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What I learned about research strategies and authorship
Published: 16/10/2017Before I came to Berkeley, I consulted my cousins, my professors and my friends on the secrets for success in Ph.D. programs. Most suggested that you have to work hard, but not too hard, and you must ... Read moreSource: blogs.berkeley.edu
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Some basic truths and ways to think about ‘free speech’
Published: 16/10/2017To make sense of this year’s battles over free speech in Berkeley, Charlottesville and elsewhere, it helps to keep in mind four basic First Amendment truths. First: The First Amendment means what the ... Read moreSource: blogs.berkeley.edu -
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Summer of Love language: Still compelling after all these years
Published: 11/10/2017If you’re into counterculture kitsch, you might want to check out the nostalgia-themed resort hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida. It features a “Hippy Dippy” swimming pool, surrou ... Read moreSource: blogs.berkeley.edu
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