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Safety Nets and Social Welfare Expenditures in World Economic History
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The safety nets in high-income countries before 1900 and in low-income countries today were based on savings and aid from extended family, friends, charities, churches, and small amounts from local governments. Mutual societies and eventually insurance companies offered insurance against lost...
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Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop and estimate a life-cycle consumption savings model in which observed genetic variation is allowed to affect wealth accumulation through several distinct channels. We focus on genetic markers that predict educational attainment, aggregated into a predictive index called a polygenic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362004
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Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan W.; Koumpias, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcare-amenable, and HIV-related mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537712
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Relationship between Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan
Oshio, Takashi; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Oishi, Akiko Sato - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study examines how elderly employment is associated with social security programs and how it responds to recent reforms in Japan. To this end, we employed a rich and longitudinal dataset of middle-aged and older individuals collected between 2005 and 2018. By incorporating various factors...
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Preparing for an Aging Africa : Data-Driven Priorities for Economic Research and Policy
Duhon, Madeline E.; Miguel, Edward; Njuguna, Amos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The over-60 population in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades, tripling between 2020 and 2050. Despite this explosive projected growth, few countries in the region have implemented policies designed to support older populations. Further, little research in...
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Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Torre, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The claim that social protection is a luxury good--with a national income elasticity exceeding unity--has as been influential. The paper tests the "luxury good hypothesis" using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period...
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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession
Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
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Social Protection in the Developing World
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, the design and implementation of redistribution and income support programs, and the challenges and potential of social …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056187
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance : Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
McInnis, Nicardo S.; Michelmore, Katherine; Pilkauskas, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the intergenerational effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty and public … assistance in adulthood (WIC and other public assistance) and reduces the likelihood of being in poverty (<100% of poverty) or … near poor (<200% of poverty) by about 7 percentage points. These findings build on a growing literature that considers the …
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