Karen Clay

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (39)

1.

An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Networks

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Sep 2003
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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peer-to-peer, file sharing, empirical, network externalities, network size

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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climate change, health, adaptation, extreme temperature, air conditioning, mortality

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8915
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 30 Mar 2015
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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health, temperature, air conditioning, climate change adaptation

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

NBER Working Paper No. w18692
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2023
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Aug 2003
Karen Clay and Gavin Wright
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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property rights, institutions, gold rush

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Static and Dynamic Pricing in Online Markets

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Karen Clay, Michael D. Smith and Eric Wolff
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Internet, pricing, dynamic pricing, static pricing, books, oligopoly

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Tariff Choice with Consumer Learning and Switching Costs

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2010
Ronald L. Goettler and Karen Clay
University of Rochester - Simon School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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consumer learning, price discrimination, dynamic discrete choice

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Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Jan 2004
Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Common law, civil law, transplant, initial conditions, state courts and public corruption

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Squatters, Production, and Violence

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Feb 2006
Karen Clay
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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property rights, agricultural production, California

What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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influenza, air pollution, mortality

What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12177
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 May 2019
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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influenza, pandemic, mortality, air pollution

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Will Adaptation to Climate Change Be Slow and Costly? Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2015
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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H04, I01, Q04, Q05

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Uncertain Property Rights and Agricultural Production: Evidence from Post-Gold-Rush California

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Feb 2006
Karen Clay
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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property rights, agricultural production, California

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Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Jun 2007
Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Civil law, persistence, judicial independence, political culture.

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for Covid-19

NBER Working Paper No. w27673
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2023
College of William and Mary - Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Rutgers University
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Mar 2019
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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lead, soil, cognitive function

The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12178
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 May 2019
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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legacy lead in soil, cognition, pre-school children

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Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w8271
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 May 2001 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022
Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan and Eric Wolff
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w26381
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Karen Clay and Nicholas Z. Muller
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
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Judicial Independence and Minority Interests

Conference on Empirical Studies and Judges, Harvard Law School, November 10, 2006
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Sep 2007
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Political Science and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

NBER Working Paper No. w24607
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11541
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 May 2018
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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lead in air, lead in gasoline, lead in topsoil, fertility, Clean Air Act

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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail: Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota

NBER Working Paper No. w23852
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

NBER Working Paper No. w19881
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 12 May 2023
Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and World Bank
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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7987
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Mar 2014
Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and World Bank
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air pollution, coal, mortality, infant mortality, heating

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Lead Pipes and Child Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w12603
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Colgate University - Economics Department
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

NBER Working Paper No. w21635
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9399
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Oct 2015
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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pollution, infectious disease, mortality, 1918 influenza pandemic

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Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the Mother of All Community-Wide Health Experiments

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Mar 2018
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Southern Denmark, University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics and University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics
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Public Health; Health Demonstration; Tuberculosis Mortality; Infant Mortality

Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14211
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Mar 2021
Karen Clay, Edson Severnini and Xiaochen Sun
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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Does Leed Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Retrofitted Federal Buildings

NBER Working Paper No. w28612
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 30 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Karen Clay, Edson Severnini and Xiaochen Sun
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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Institutional Hysterisis: Courts and Politics in the American States (Chapters 5&6 of a Book Project)

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 26 Jun 2009
Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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legal origins, judicial retention, judicial independence, panel estimation

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9884
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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mid-20th century air pollution, coal-fired electricity generation, infant mortality, housing values, tradeoffs

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

NBER Working Paper No. w22155
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 11 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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Lead and Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w16480
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Colgate University - Economics Department
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Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

NBER Working Paper No. w12111
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 May 2006 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2022
Karen Clay and Werner Troesken
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Do Schooling Laws Matter? Evidence from the Introduction of Compulsory Attendance Laws in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w18477
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2023
Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall and Melvin Stephens
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Truman State University and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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The Value of Health Insurance During a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13200
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 May 2020
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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public health insurance, medicaid, influenza pandemics

The Value of Health Insurance During a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w27120
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 May 2020 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the United States 1936-2015

NBER Working Paper No. w24695
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2023
Karen Clay and Margarita Portnykh
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16229
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Jun 2023
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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coal availability, local development, air pollution, trade-offs of coal consumption

The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities

NBER Working Paper No. w31365
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2023
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South

NBER Working Paper No. w23730
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2023
Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick and Werner Troesken
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Muhlenberg College and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

NBER Working Paper No. w15669
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2023
Karen Clay and Werner Troesken
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Laws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from the Full Count 1940 Census

NBER Working Paper No. w22855
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2023
Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall and Melvin Stephens
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Truman State University and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14494
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 26 Jun 2021
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation

NBER Working Paper No. w28962
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 28 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16236
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jun 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Indiana University and Carnegie Mellon University
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lead exposure, fertility, mortality, infant health

The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w31379
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Ohio State University (OSU) and Carnegie Mellon University
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Energy and the Environment in Economic History

NBER Working Paper No. w31408
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2023
Karen Clay
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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The Impact of an Environmental Shock on Black-White Inequality: Evidence from the Boll Weevil

NBER Working Paper No. w27101
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2023
Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick and Werner Troesken
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Muhlenberg College and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w25884
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 May 2019 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2023
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Southern Denmark, University of CopenhagenUniversity of Copenhagen - Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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