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James Feyrer
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 39
Citations - 3137
James Feyrer is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Total factor productivity. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2886 citations. Previous affiliations of James Feyrer include National Bureau of Economic Research.
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The Marginal Product of Capital
Francesco Caselli,James Feyrer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that the marginal product of capital (MPK) is remarkably similar across countries and there is no prima facie support for the view that international credit frictions play a major role in preventing capital flows from rich to poor countries.
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Demographics and productivity
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between workforce demographics and aggregate productivity and found that changes in the age structure of the workforce are significantly correlated with the aggregate productivity of the entire workforce. But, they did not examine the effect of the age distribution on the productivity of individual workers.
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Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution
TL;DR: The authors track the geographic and temporal propagation of local economic shocks from new oil and gas production generated by hydrofracturing and show that new extraction increased aggregate US employment by as many as 640,000, and decreased the unemployment rate by 0.43 during the Great Recession.
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Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography
TL;DR: In this article, a time varying geographic instrument is used to identify a positive effect of trade on income, which can be used to generate a geography based instrument for trade that varies over time, eliminating the bias from time invariant variables such as distance from the equator or historically determined institutions.
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that countries in which men perform relatively more of the childcare and household production (and where female labor force participation was highest 30 years ago) have the highest fertility within the rich country sample.