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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
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Congestion in the Electricity Transmission System Redistributes Pollution Across Long Distances
Johnson, Erik - 2020
Electricity transmission redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit episodes of high electricity transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone...
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
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Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries
Cattaneo, Maria; Lergetporer, Philipp; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2019
treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?
Mitchener, Kris James; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...
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The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States
Trebbi, Francesco; Zhang, Miao Ben; Simkovic, Michael - 2023
One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on all businesses or whether certain firms, for instance small ones, are especially penalized. We quantify firms’ compliance costs in terms of their labor spending to adhere to...
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Fifty Years of U.S. Natural Disaster Insurance Policy
Marcoux, Kendra; H. Wagner, Katherine R. - 2023
The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body of literature on the role of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and private natural disaster insurance markets in the United...
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Does U.S. Monetary Policy Respond to Macroeconomic Uncertainty?
Gomez, Thomas; Piccillo, Giulia - 2023
We find that macroeconomic uncertainty plays a significant role in U.S. monetary policy. First, we construct a measure of uncertainty as felt by policymakers at the time of making their rate-setting decisions. This measure is derived from a real-time, Bayesian estimation of a small monetary VAR...
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Batman Forever? The Role of Trademarks for Reuse in the US Comics Industry
Kaiser, Franziska; Cuntz, Alexander; Peukert, Christian - 2023
We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...
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