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This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...
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We empirically examine whether there is discernable variation in the matriculation patterns of low-income students at public flagship institutions in the United States around changes in institutional financial-aid policies that target resident, low-income students with need-based aid. While...
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household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level … analysis, we also explore the prevalence of intra-household gambling, which has attracted relatively limited attention in the …
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In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …
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This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
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, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …
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expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …
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incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for …In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …
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effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's experimental trial to identify its indirect effect on consumption …
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