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Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in the U.S
Chen, Yutong; Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This chapter examines the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence (DV) in the United States. Despite widespread concerns that pandemic shutdowns could increase DV, initial studies found mixed evidence that varied across data sources and locations. We review the evolving literature on...
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Browsers Don't Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use
Miller, Amalia R.; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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Individual Earnings and Family Income : Dynamics and Distribution
Altonji, Joseph G.; Hynsjö, Disa M.; Vidangos, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural models of saving. We present a version of the linear...
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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
We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined … find that income inequality and income growth patterns identified from administrative tax records differ in important ways … illustrate IDDA's relevance for understanding income inequality trends. First, we extend Bayer and Charles (2018) beyond earnings …
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Fighting Abuse with Prescription Tracking : Mandatory Drug Monitoring and Intimate Partner Violence
Dave, Dhaval; Erten, Bilge; Hummel, David W.; Keskin, Pinar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non-users through adverse spillovers on children, families, and communities. We study the spillover effects of a supply-side policy aimed at reducing the over-prescribing of opioids on women's...
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Gender and Electoral Incentives : Evidence from Crisis Response
Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Tricaud, Clemence - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first use a simple political agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the model's predictions by...
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections
Drozd, Mark M.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...
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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic : Some Perspectives from the Field
Pathak, Parag A.; Persad, Govind; Sönmez, Tayfun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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Causal Inference During a Pandemic : Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nebulized Ibuprofen as an Unproven Treatment for COVID-19 in Argentina
Calonico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Del Valle, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many medical decisions during the pandemic were made without the support of causal evidence obtained in clinical trials. We study the case of nebulized ibuprofen (NaIHS), a drug that was extensively used on COVID-19 patients in Argentina amidst wild claims about its effectiveness and without...
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