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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...
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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
Bachas, Pierre; Fisher-Post, Matthew H.; Jensen, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build and analyze a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by combining national accounts data with government revenue...
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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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Effects of the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Young Adults on Material Wellbeing
Lee, Jiwan; Michelmore, Katherine; Pilkauskas, Natasha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In 2021, the U.S. Congress temporarily expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without a qualifying child (childless EITC), to help counteract the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-wage working adults. This expansion roughly tripled the maximum benefits for qualifying filers and...
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...
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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...
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Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
groups than the survey data suggest, through higher program receipt and greater poverty reduction. These biases in survey …
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The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power : Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives
Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case may suggest that it is irrelevant for aggregate welfare whether output is restricted via corrective taxes or limiting competition. However, when products are differentiated...
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