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David Weil
Researcher at Brandeis University
Publications - 66
Citations - 5677
David Weil is an academic researcher from Brandeis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enforcement & Minimum wage. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 66 publications receiving 5305 citations. Previous affiliations of David Weil include Boston University & Harvard University.
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Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
TL;DR: In this paper, a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress is developed, which is consistent with long-term historical evidence, and it is shown that technological progress creates a state of disequilibrium which raises the return to human capital and induces patients to substitute child quality for quantity.
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Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency
TL;DR: The present and future of disclosure are examined in detail in 18 major cases: Eighteen major cases of information-based regulation, Governance by transparency, and the future of disclosures.
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The Effectiveness of Regulatory Disclosure Policies.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that transparency policies are effective only when the information they produce becomes embedded in the everyday decision-making routines of information users and information disclosers.
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History and the Role of Trade
TL;DR: The role of natural characteristics in determining the worldwide spatial distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, observed across 240,000 grid cells is explored, and countries that developed earlier are more spatially equal in their distribution of education and economic activity than late developers.
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The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that public-policy choices will continue to influence sourcing location; in particular, as they relate to tariffs and regional trade polices as well as to policies affecting the linkages between countries.