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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

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Labor Markets and Monetary Policy : A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2010

We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We first leave nominal rigidities aside. We show that,...

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

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Trends in Hours, Balanced Growth, and the Role of Technology in the Business Cycle

Galí, Jordi - 2021

The present paper revisits a property embedded in most dynamic macroeconomic models: the stationarity of hours worked. First, I argue that, contrary to what is often believed, there are many reasons why hours could be nonstationary in those models, while preserving the property of balanced...

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Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption

Galí, Jordi; Lopez-Salido, David; Vallés, Javier - 2021

Recent evidence suggests that consumption rises in response to an increase in government spending. That finding cannot be easily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard new Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb consumers. We show how...

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Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle : Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations

Galí, Jordi - 2021

Using data for the G7 countries, I estimate conditional correlations of employment and productivity, based on a decomposition of the two series into technology and non-technology components. The picture that emerges is hard to reconcile with the predictions of the standard Real Business Cycle...

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Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations : How Well Does the Rbs Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data?

Galí, Jordi; Rabanal, Pau - 2022

Our answer: not so well. We reach that conclusion after reviewing recent research on the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations. The bulk of the evidence suggests a limited role for aggregate technology shocks, pointing instead to demand factors as the main force behind the...

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang, Julia Shu-Huah - 2018

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies – Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC) – that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...

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