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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation...

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Women working longer : facts and some explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: Women working longer : increased employment at older ages, (pp. 11-53). 2018

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A Tax-Based Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution

Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

One of the most important behavioral parameters in macroeconomics is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS …

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The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment : Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops

Goldin, Claudia - 2019

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak and then declined starting in the fifties. The new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat,...

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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - 2022

Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...

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The Elasticity of Taxable Income : Evidence and Implications

Gruber, Jonathan; Saez, Emmanuel - 2021

uncertainty, is the overall elasticity of taxable income. We provide new estimates of this elasticity which address identification … income, and on variation in the elasticity of taxable income by income group. We find that the overall elasticity of taxable … income is approximately 0.4; the elasticity of real income, not including tax preferences, is much lower. We also estimate …

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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market : An Experimental Study

Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; … - 2014

We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business...

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Cheaper by the Dozen : Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Dynarski, Susan M. - 2009

The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for … private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined … an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a …

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Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

Gerber, Alan - 2010

Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity (quot;Blue lawsquot;) to measure...

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Improving the Quality of Choices in Health Insurance Markets

Abaluck, Jason - 2016

Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets – and little evidence on solutions to any choice inconsistencies. This paper addresses these omissions from...

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