Department of Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Diversity and Technological Progress 

      Acemoglu, Daron (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-12-15)
      This paper proposes a tractable model to study the equilibrium diversity of technological progress and shows that equilibrium technological progress may exhibit too little diversity (too much conformity), in particular ...

    • Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco 

      Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Pariente, William; Pons, Vincent (Cambride, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011-04-01)
      We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city’s ...

    • Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and interpretation 

      Greenstone, Michael; Kopits, Elizabeth; Wolverton, Ann (2012-07-08)
      The United States Government recently concluded a year-long process to develop a range of values representing the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, commonly referred ...