Why Barcode Data Matters, Right?

Jesselyn Ifill: When we think about what drives location choices across cities, we don't consider the opportunities to consume other goods that arise in different cities. She says if you want to compare goods prices and standards of living across places, you need to go to the very fine detail. In high income market, poor cannot find the goods they would like to buy, she says; instead, rich can find goods that took them but wouldn't be as hard to find elsewhere. The same high income market can be at the same time expensive for the poor and cheap for the wealthy,. But both this paper and the location as an asset paper by Belal and Rossi Hansberg made me think

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