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macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50 …% of survey participants report income and wealth losses due to the corona virus, with the average losses being $5,293 and …
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other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We …, as numerous other survey characteristics were revised. We employ a two-stage RDD to relate state-specific refusal … non-citizens and Hispanics reluctant to take the survey. We recommend there be a trial to precisely estimate the question …
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Despite the widespread use of graphs in empirical research, little is known about readers' ability to process the statistical information they are meant to convey ("visual inference"). We study visual inference within the context of regression discontinuity (RD) designs by measuring how...
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The Regression Kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method, with more than 20 studies circulated using RK in the last 5 years since the initial circulation of Card, Lee, Pei and Weber (2012). We document empirically that these estimates, which typically use local linear...
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We propose various semiparametric estimators for nonlinear selection models, where slope and intercept can be separately identifed. When the selection equation satisfies a monotonic index restriction, we suggest a local polynomial estimator, using only observations for which the marginal...
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combining household survey with administrative tax microdata and adjusting to match National Accounts aggregates. From these … to traditional household survey-based estimates of inequality. Moreover, we exploit the richness of our unique microdata …-tax national income is less than inequality of survey-based (post-transfer, disposable) income for Australia. The gender gap in …
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Introducing a new survey of U.S. firms' inflation expectations, we document key stylized facts involving what U …
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We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer-employee data, we show that a key benefit of attending the...
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Using a new survey of firms' inflation expectations in France, we provide novel evidence about the measurement and … the position of the respondent within the firm affects the provided responses. Fourth, because our survey measures firms …
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Rising government debt levels around the world are raising the specter that authorities might seek to inflate away the debt. In theoretical settings where fiscal policy "dominates" monetary policy, higher debt without offsetting changes in primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate...
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