A distinctive feature of the health insurance market in the US is the restriction of group
insurance availability to the workplace. This has a number of important implications for the …

The emerging economic federations of the European Union, Russia, and South Africa, along
with the established federations in Australia, Canada, and the United States, confront the …

本文利用2005 年1% 人口抽样调查中劳动力流动的微观数据与220 个地级市的城市特征数据,
研究了公共服务与工资等城市特征对劳动力流向的影响. 估计结果显示, 劳动力选择流向某个 …

This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers,
landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment …

Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies
of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers …

US economic activity is overwhelmingly concentrated at its ocean and Great Lakes coasts,
reflecting a large contribution from coastal proximity to productivity and quality of life …

Differences in local fiscal conditions generate compensating differentials across local land
and labor markets just as we have long known amenities to do. Thus the fiscal climate …

We present a hedonic framework to estimate US households' preferences over local
climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor a …

In the United States, workers in cities offering above-average wages—cities with high
productivity, low quality of life, or inefficient housing sectors—pay 27 percent more in federal …

This paper models how to use widely available data on wages and housing costs to infer
land rents, local productivity, and the total value of local amenities in the presence of federal …