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Money or Power? Financial Infrastructure and Optimal Policy

Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Biscaye, Pierre E.; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, 186 countries implemented direct cash transfers to households, and 181 introduced … in-kind programs that lowered the cost of utilities such as electricity, water, transport, and mobile money. Do cash or … line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients …

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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the Past Two Decades

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the U.S. over the last two decades. Contrary to our...

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Trauma at School : The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes

Cabral, Marika - 2020

A growing number of American children are exposed to gun violence at their schools, but little is known about the impacts of this exposure on their human capital attainment and economic well-being. This paper studies the causal effects of exposure to shootings at schools on children's...

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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature

Corman, Hope - 2018

Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...

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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the effects of a comprehensive performance pay program for teachers implemented in high-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked administrative data from a Southern state, we leverage the...

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Teacher performance pay, coaching, and long-run student outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2023

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the ACS

Evans, William N. - 2017

Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...

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Push and Pull : Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States

Milligan, Kevin - 2017

Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the 'push' from weak labor markets versus the 'pull' of more generous benefits. Using an instrumental...

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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession

Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...

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