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Monetary policy communication : perspectives from former policymakers at the ECB

Ehrmann, Michael; Holton, Sarah; Kedan, Danielle; … - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 56 (2024) 4, pp. 837-864

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Does policy communication during COVID-19 work?

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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Growth in the shadows : effect of the shadow economy on U.S. economic growth over more than a century

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in … between economic growth and its determinants. Results suggest that prior to WWII the shadow economy had a negative effect on … economic growth; however, post-WWII the shadow economy was beneficial for growth. This ambiguity regarding the overall growth …

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?

Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015

Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking respondents to identify times when a child under 13 was "in your care." The goal of these questions is...

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Beyond job lock : impacts of public health insurance on occupational and industrial mobility

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016

We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that...

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Prescription drug monitoring programs and neonatal outcomes

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Zhang, Ning - 2019

Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States...

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The effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment : evidence from the affordable care act

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017

We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...

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Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...

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