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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...
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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...
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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018
More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...
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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
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Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policies
Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J. - 2002
This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and determine...
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
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Time is of the essence: climate adaptation induced by existing institutions
Bento, Antonio; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; … - 2021
In the absence of first-best climate policy, we demonstrate that existing government institutions and policy established for reasons unrelated to climate change may induce climate adaptation. We examine the impact of temperature on ambient ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013,...
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Distributional effects of emission pricing in a carbon-intensive economy: the case of Poland
Antosiewicz, Marek; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; … - 2020
In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a microsimulation model based on household budget survey data...
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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in … counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in competitiveness explain around 10% of the overall gender gap. We also find that …
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