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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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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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Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort

Altonji, Joseph G.; Giraldo Páez, Daniel; Hynsjö, Disa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

For birth cohorts 1935-44, 1945-62, and 1964-74, we estimate the contribution of education; permanent heterogeneity in wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and marital histories to the age profiles of the variance of...

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The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on the Distribution of Wealth : An International Comparison

Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this paper, I analyze detailed data on intergenerational transfers in 4 countries (China, India, Japan, and the United States) from the "Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and Satisfaction (JHPS-CPS)" which has been conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research...

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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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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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From Access to Wellness : Early Life Exposure to Abortion Legalization and the Next Generation's Health

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Slusky, David; Vu, Hoa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the multigenerational impacts of legalized abortion in the United States by analyzing how early-life exposure to this policy shift affects birth outcomes in the next generation. Using event study and two-way fixed effects models, we link maternal early-life exposure to legal abortion...

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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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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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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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