MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices 

      Greenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-02-24)
      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 ...

    • Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap? 

      Alcott, Hunt; Greenstone, Michael (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-01-17)
      Many analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous “win-win” opportunity to both reduce negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in ...

    • What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David (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 ...