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less skilled and their employment responses to adverse employment shocks. Following program liberalization in 1984, DI …
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The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important tool for improving public health outcomes, including reducing childbearing among teenagers. Taken at face value, recently reported estimates suggest that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could reduce the number of teenage...
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. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … employment rate. Reductions in population headcounts, which indicate net out-migration, register only for foreign-born workers …
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Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has prompted aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and 2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. Applying a continuous treatment...
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Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in marijuana consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use...
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proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable … effects on labor supply in comparison groups. Employment effects of school reopenings are concentrated among mothers of older …
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cumulatively preserved between 2 and 3 million job-years of employment over 14 months at a cost of $170K to $257K per job … employment subsidies or business liquidity when the next pandemic or other large-scale economic emergency occurs, as it surely …
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Public health experts caution that legalization of recreational marijuana may normalize smoking and undermine the decades-long achievements of tobacco control policy. However, very little is known about the impact of recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on adult tobacco use. Using information from...
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The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...
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as they expand AI hiring. However, we find no discernible relationship between AI exposure and employment or wage growth …
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