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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778918
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Family Food Insecurity
Noonan, Kelly; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Theory suggests that adverse life events--such as unemployment or health shocks--can result in food insecurity, which …
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries...
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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
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Misclassification in Binary Choice Models
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
While measurement error in the dependent variable does not lead to bias in some well-known cases, with a binary dependent variable the bias can be pronounced. In binary choice, Hausman, Abrevaya and Scott-Morton (1998) show that the marginal effects in the observed data differ from the true ones...
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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In this chapter I provide a brief history of the TANF program, including changes made as part of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. I then present a variety of program statistics, including trends in aggregate and state-level caseloads and spending, along with changes in the demographic composition...
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
unemployment, lowers labor force participation, and reduces wages in local labor markets. Conservatively, it explains one …-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …
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