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job-to-job mobility to study policy spillovers in the context of three local minimum wage increases. Estimated spillover …
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spillovers. Patients in the lead investigator's region are initially 36% more likely to receive the new drug, but utilization …
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We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...
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programs be maintained when implemented by governments at scale, will positive effects be offset by negative spillovers, and … economic spillovers on non-beneficiaries. However, the effects were entirely driven by the asset transfer portion of the …
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We estimate a multi-country multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of domestic inflation during 2020-2023 in several countries, including the United States. The model matches observed inflation together with sector-level prices and wages. We further measure the relative...
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In 2021, the U.S. Treasury reduced Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) exposure to speculative mortgages. As a result, GSE purchases fell by about 20 percentage points. The policy reduced credit to speculative investors in housing, but increased credit to unaffected parts of the...
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We study international monetary policy spillovers and spillbacks in a tractable two-country Heterogeneous Agent New … propensities to consume (MPC). While both channels amplify the size of spillovers/spillbacks, only precautionary savings can change … their sign relative to RANK. Spillovers are likely to be larger in economies with higher fractions of high MPC households …
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This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land … spillovers depend on the type of the spillover. Land taxation is the essential instrument for policies that mostly generate … fiscal spillovers, such as debt and public infrastructure. By contrast, interjurisdictional competition is the essential …
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This paper estimates the degree to which state spending is influenced by the spending of neighboring states. Focusing on mandated increases in welfare spending, I find that each dollar of state spending causes spending in neighboring states to increase by 37 to 88 cents. I use more plausibly...
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This paper studies localization of academic and industrial knowledge spillovers. Using data on U.S. Research and … find that academic spillovers are more localized than industrial spillovers. I also find that localization is increased by … nearby stocks of R&D, but reduced by laboratory and firm size. These results on localized academic spillovers reflect open …
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