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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...

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The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs

Hoynes, Hilary W. - 2010

This paper estimates the total value that individuals derive from their state's tax-and-transfer program, and shows how this value varies by income. The paper decomposes this total value into two components: redistributive value, which is due to predictable changes in income (and family...

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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2010

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African...

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Empathy and Emulation : Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. - 2008

Departures from self-centred, consumption-oriented decision making are increasingly common in economic theory and are well motivated by a wide range of behavioural data from experiments, surveys, and econometric inference. A number of studies have shown large negative externalities in individual...

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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 2017

Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...

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Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic

Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how pre-pandemic inequalities in America influenced social distancing over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richer counties tended to see more protective mobility responses in the initial (pre-pharmaceutical) phase, but less protective responses later. Near linearity of this income...

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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle

Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...

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Harms of AI

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This essay discusses several potential economic, political and social costs of the current path of AI technologies. I argue that if AI continues to be deployed along its current trajectory and remains unregulated, it may produce various social, economic and political harms. These include:...

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Representation Failure

Iaryczower, Matias; Montero, Sergio; Kim, Galileu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the "supply side" of politics hinders voter welfare. Using rich data on thousands of candidates in three Brazilian legislative elections, we...

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Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality : The Case of Brazil

Engbom, Niklas; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Moser, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s …, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector. Higher-order moments of … the distribution of earnings changes show cyclical movements in Brazil that are similar to those in developed countries …

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