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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2015
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035727
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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154984
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Less Myth, More Measurement : Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike
Lin, Carl - 2012
In the book Myth and Measurement, Card and Krueger (1995) examine the economic impact of the 1989 minimum wage hike on the welfare of 110 firms which employ a disproportionate number of minimum-wage workers. Their results show mixed evidence that excess returns associated with news about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112058
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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
Gong, Xiaodong - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104958
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Measuring the Impacts of Covid-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
Shen, Kailing - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824418
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826752
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919496
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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082244
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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia
Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022
Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241706
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141728