notsureifwant

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   by notsureifwant 10y ago

   Easterly is an economist at NYU (who published one of the earliest papers on the subject), I'm not sure about the others. However the discussion is a good representation of some of the debate that's gone on regarding interpreting
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   by notsureifwant 10y ago

   There's a fair amount of research in economic history on almost exactly this topic. Two recent papers http://www.nber.org/papers/w12328.pdf and https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s_WKe-US
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   by notsureifwant 12y ago

   The two Olds papers both use clever triple difference designs (e.g. you're using change in entrepreneurship amongst those who've just become eligible for food stamps in one state relative to those who were already eligible as the
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   by notsureifwant 12y ago

   My personal interpretation is that a lot of this effect is driven by the fact that income (which I think we tend to think about as a proxy for standard of living, including quality of school system and safety of neighborhood, and not just w