Aisbett, Emma; Brueckner, Markus; Steinhauser, Ralf; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013
In 2009 the Australian government delivered approximately $8 billion in direct payments to households. These payments were preannounced and randomly allocated to households based on postal codes over a 5-week period. We exploit this random allocation to estimate the causal response of...