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The Timing and Funding of Fedwire Funds Transfers

McAndrews, James; Rajan, Samira - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; Harvard … - 2000

[...]In this article, we measure banks’ alternative fundingsources for Fedwire funds transfers throughout the day, usinga data set that includes all banks’ Fedwire funds transfers andFederal Reserve System deposits. This approach allows us togauge the importance of incoming payments as a...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …

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The Changing Relationship between Income and Crime Victimization

Levitt, Steven D. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

This paper explores changes in the relationship betweenrace, income, and criminal victimization over time. Interestin … income earned by the top 5 percentof American families increased from 15.3 percent to 20.1 percent.Families in the bottom …

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Earnings Inequality and Central-City Development

Mills, Edwin S. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

indicate that theearnings of low-income and historically disadvantagedworkers rose faster in 1997 and 1998 than those of …

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …

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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy

MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...

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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market and the Wage Structure

Borjas, George J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1995

). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages during the 1980s. However, workersat the 33rd percentile experienced a …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons

Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

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