MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Offshoring and Directed Technical Change 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-11-24)
      To study the short-run and long-run implications on wage inequality, we introduce directed technical change into a Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled ...

    • Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings 

      Currie, Janet; Davis, Lucas; Greenstone, Michael; Walker, Reed (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-12-21)
      A ubiquitous and largely unquestioned assumption in studies of housing markets is that there is perfect information about local amenities. This paper measures the housing market and health impacts of 1,600 openings and ...

    • Adapting the Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century 

      Barreca, Alan; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-12-20)
      Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th ...