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Innovation and public policy
Goolsbee, Austan (ed.); Jones, Benjamin F. (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
"In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of mechanisms, from tax credits in the private...
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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA
Kuka, Elira - 2018
This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We obtain variation in the benefits of schooling from the enactment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in 2012, which provides work authorization and...
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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or On the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2014
institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …
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Migration and Fiscal Externality : US vs. Europe
Razin, Assaf - 2020
The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective skill-based migration policy in the US compared to the European Union. Policy coordination among states within the federal system on migration, taxes, and social benefits among...
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Hendren, Nathaniel - 2019
We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to...
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Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2008
This paper presents a theory of competition for political leadership between incumbent leaders and their challengers in which the possible equilibrium political market structures range from pure monopoly (unchallenged dictatorship) to perfectly competitive (ideal democracy). Leaders are...
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Issues in the economics of immigration
Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000
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The roles of immigrants and foreign students in US science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Ganguli, Ina (ed.); Kahn, Shulamit Beth (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research / Workshop <2018, … - 2020
Introduction / Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie --I. Location choices of international students and return migration.Return migrants' self-selection : evidence for Indian inventors /Stefano Breschi, Francesco Lissoni, and Ernest Miguelez --Will the U.S. keep the best and the...
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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program
Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...
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The Refugee Advantage : English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Catron, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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