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Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States
Dray, Sacha; Landais, Camille; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a comprehensive tax on all types of property (real, personal, and financial), making it one of the first "wealth...
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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
is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using proxies, then use those imputations to estimate the disparity … estimates of common health conditions by race using data from the American Family Cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528352
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Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA : Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity
Kondo, Illenin O.; Rinz, Kevin; Gubbay, Natalie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and ethnicity data from the 2010 Census to study how long-term earnings … differentials vary by place of birth for different self-identified race and ethnicity categories. We focus on foreign-born persons … differences for the 2nd generation also vary as a function of self-identified ethnicity and race in ways that changing to the …
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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa
Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …
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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210063
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How Should We Measure Infrastructure? The Case of Highways and Streets
Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital--highways and streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210073
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change : Global vs. Local Temperature
Bilal, Adrien; Känzig, Diego R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are six times larger than previously thought. We exploit natural variability in global temperature and rely on time-series variation. A 1°C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP. Global...
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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare
Baqaee, David; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide a method to measure welfare, in money-metric terms, taking into account expectations about the future. Our two key assumptions are that (1) the expenditure function is separable between the present and the future, and (2) there are some households that do not face idiosyncratic...
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Revisiting Productivity Dynamics in Europe : A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in five European countries and in the United States. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
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