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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia - 2014
result in income or health gains …
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650
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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take it Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco
Crepon, Bruno - 2014
and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052669
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How Risky are Recessions for Top Earners?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2014
How sensitive are the earnings of top earners to business cycles? And, how does the business cycle sensitivity of top earners vary by industry? We use a confidential dataset on earnings histories of US males from the Social Security Administration. On average, individuals in the top 1% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059765
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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social … individual income growth during recessions into "between-group" and "within-group" components. We begin with the behavior of … within-group shocks. Contrary to past research, we do not find the variance of idiosyncratic income shocks to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036930
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2013
In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078867
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal About Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite transitory, whereas … negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these rich sets of …
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