We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Using rainfall data going back over a century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data spanning 1970−2010. Results from a differencein-differences design reveal that increased drought frequency in...

This paper examines race and police use of force using data on 1.6 million 911 calls in two cities, neither which allows for discretion officer dispatch. Results indicate White officers increase much more than minority when dispatched to neighborhoods. Estimates Black (Hispanic) civilians are 55 (75) percent likely experience any force, five times as a shooting, compared if scaled up similarly ...

This paper evaluates the impact of the positive terms of trade (TOT) Shock on macroeconomic variables, using panel data for the six OPEC major oil exporting countries during 1989-2005. The findings indicate that the positive TOT shocks have the small and negative impact on savings and on the trade balance. Nevertheless, it has a positive impact on investment (specifically private investment) an...

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, exploit exogenous variation induced by agricultural income shocks for identification. find that, when immigration increases, becomes more labor intensive productivity declines. investigate the reorganization of using patent applications pr...

The paper considers maximum likelihood estimation of dynamic panel structural equation models with latent variables and fixed effects (DPSEM). This generalises the structural equation methods where latent variables are measured by multiple observable indicators and where structural and measurement models are jointly estimated to dynamic panel models with fixed effects. Analytical expressions fo...

This paper uses panel and retrospective life history data from an important new data source the British Household Panel Survey to establish some stylised facts about the unemployment experiences of men. In particular we investigate the proportion of the sample who suffer from repeated unemployment spells, the origin and destination states of unemployment spells, some reasons for entering unempl...

Abstract The paper applies synthetic instruments, initially developed for cross-sectional regression, to estimate dynamic spatial panel data models. These have two main advantages. First, instruments correlated with endogenous variables and yet independent of the errors are difficult find. Not only normally exogenous, but they usually strongly variables, thus help avoid problem weak instruments...

In this paper, the spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) model is extended to single-index (Si-SDPD) by introducing a nonlinear connection function reflect interaction between explanatory variables. The Si-SDPD not only retains advantages of parametric SDPD in dealing with and temporal effects spatio-temporal dependencies, but also solves limitations that may lead missed bias. It reduces dimension ...