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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...
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People's Understanding of Inflation
Binetti, Alberto; Nuzzi, Francesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies people's understanding of inflation--their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs--and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components--a conjoint...
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The People and the Experts
Nordhaus, William D.; Rivers, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education : An Overview
Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next … on the causal effects of financial education programs focusing on randomized controlled trial evaluations. The article … concludes with perspectives on future research priorities for both financial literacy and financial education …
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Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010
Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?
Jacob, Brian A. - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging : Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
education, health, and participation rates between population subgroups can have on increasing the U.S. labor force. Our …
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The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan
Hurd, Michael D. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 1997
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Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates : The Dual-Bootstrap
Lu, Benjamin; Wan, Jia; Ouyang, Derek; Goldin, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals' races and ethnicities to calculate them. A common solution is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using...
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