Browsing MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series by Subject "inequality"
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdepent World?
(Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-08-20)Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not ... -
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
(Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-02-29)This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by ... -
What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
(Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-07)Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings ...