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Unconditional Cash and Family Investments in Infants : Evidence from a Large-Scale Cash Transfer Experiment in the U.S
Gennetian, Lisa A.; Duncan, Greg J.; Fox, Nathan A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-scale, multi-site randomized controlled study of monthly unconditional cash transfers starting at the time of a child's birth. We … find that the cash transfers increased spending on child-specific goods and mothers' early-learning activities with their … infants. The marginal propensity to consume child-focused items from the cash transfer exceeded that from other income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362033
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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
early 1900s had significant impact on labor markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates, and crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462956
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Making Money
Gorton, Gary; Ross, Chase P.; Ross, Sharon Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
It is difficult for private agents to produce money that circulates at par with no questions asked. We study two cases of privately-produced money: pre-Civil War U.S. private banknotes and modern stablecoins. Private monies are introduced when there are no better alternatives, but they initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814485
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The Extent of the Market for Early American Bank Notes
Bodenhorn, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How far did antebellum bank notes travel? Up to now, we did not know. Using previously overlooked data on interbank holdings of bank notes and the records of a small-time note broker, I find that most bank notes circulated within about 50 miles of the issuing banks. Few notes were observed from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437017
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Selling Subscriptions
Einav, Liran; Klopack, Benjamin; Mahoney, Neale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
is higher for consumers that took cash advances, a proxy for low financial sophistication. Relative to a counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337781
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The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt
Guttman-Kenney, Benedict; Adams, Paul; Hunt, Stefan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We run a field experiment and a survey experiment to study an active choice nudge. Our nudge is designed to reduce the anchoring of credit card payments to the minimum payment. In our field experiment, the nudge reduces enrollment in Autopaying the minimum from 36.9% to 9.6%. However, the nudge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447247
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Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
Ba, Bocar A.; Bayer, Patrick J.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime … rate by 4.6 percent and significantly decrease inequality in crime, discretionary arrests, and officer use of force across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629463
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The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence : Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated
Mukherjee, Anita; Sanders, Nicholas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Correctional facilities commonly lack climate control, producing a setting absent endogenous responses to hot weather like avoidance, adjustment, and mitigation. We study daily weather variation across the state of Mississippi, and show that high temperatures increase intense violence among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599277
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Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?
Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of … national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599328
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Guns, Privacy, and Crime
Acquisti, Alessandro; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191035