期刊快享|The Review of Economics and Statistics [September 2024]

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01 Productivity, Place, and Plants Benjamin Schoefer, Oren Ziv Abstract ： Why do cities differ so much in productivity? A long literature has sought out  systematic  sources, such as inherent productivity advantages, market access, agglomeration forces, or sorting. We document that up to three-quarters of the measured regional productivity dispersion is spurious, reflecting the “luck of the draw” of finite counts of idiosyncratically heterogeneous plants that happen to operate in a given location. The patterns are even more pronounced for new plants, hold for alternative productivity measures, and broadly extend to European countries. This large role for individual plants suggests a smaller role for places in driving regional differences. 02 Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution To mas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova, Lubica Laslopova, Olesia Zeynalova Abstract ： A key parameter in the analysis of wage inequality is the elasticity of substitution betw ………………………………