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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Observing 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 important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic development, u...
Keywords: Rural-Urban Migration, economic development
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (EPU-S), one that captures national and international sources ...
Keywords: Policy uncertainty, elections and uncertainty, COVID-19 pandemic, state-level economic performance, unemployment
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2021

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Members' Digest

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2021

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

About one-fifth of paid workdays will be supplied from home in the post-pandemic economy, and more than one-fourth on an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Keywords: Internet access, productivity, COVID-19, working from home, remote work, earnings inequality, subjective well-being, economic resilience
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