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analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across persons of differing age, education, race, and gender, and we …
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We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...
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The employment and hours worked of young individuals fluctuate much more over the business cycle than those of prime-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over the cycle. We argue that the joint behavior...
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calculate the expected present discounted value (EPDV) of an immediate annuity with first payout at age 66 for persons by gender …
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. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age …
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age, gender, and ethnicity and that these characteristics also predict a lower probability of mental health treatment …
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A long-standing debate concerns the rationality of slave owners and this paper addresses that debate within the context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the productive characteristics of slaves. More productive...
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of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …, 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 on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies …
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We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …
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The destructive economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was distributed unequally across the population. Gender, race …
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