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The Job Ladder : Inflation vs. Reallocation

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

marginal costs and inflation. As workers climb the job ladder, reducing slack in the employment pool, the inflation effect …, unemployment and inflation to aggregate shocks. The ratio between job-finding probabilities from job-to-job and from unemployment …, a measure of the "Acceptance rate" of job offers to employed workers, predicts negatively inflation, independently of …

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Identification of Marginal Treatment Effects using Subjective Expectations

Briggs, Joseph; Caplin, Andrew; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a method to identify the individual latent propensity to select into treatment and marginal treatment effects. Identification is achieved with survey data on individuals' subjective expectations of their treatment propensity and of their treatment-contingent outcomes. We use the...

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator

Cengiz, Doruk - 2019

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. To implement our approach, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the...

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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018

A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...

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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2016

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...

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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run : Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940

Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...

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A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility

Chang, Yoosoon; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lee, Seunghee; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper develops an approach to intergenerational mobility in which the trajectories of parental incomes during childhood and adolescence are the conditioning objects for characterizing dependence across generations. We use functional regression methods to produce an intergenerational...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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