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from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random assignment of … parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent …
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measures of clean indoor air restrictions are added to the survey data. Both parametric and semi-parametric duration models are …
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The length of time from the implementation of an occupational licensing statute (i.e., licensing duration) may matter … duration of occupational licensing statutes for 13 major universally licensed occupations over a 75-year period. These … estimates of potential economic rents to grandfathering. We find that duration years of occupational licensure are positively …
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unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …
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Medicare does not pay for a skilled nursing facility (SNF) unless a fee-for-service patient has stayed in the hospital for at least three days. Discharges after the three-day cutoff consistently result in more transfers to SNFs. Using the three-day rule as an instrument, we find that SNF...
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We propose that financial institutions can act as asset insulators, holding assets for the long run to protect their valuations from consequences of exposure to financial markets. We demonstrate the empirical relevance of this theory for the balance sheet behavior of a large class of...
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Time limits are a central component of recent welfare reforms and represent a substantial departure from previous policy. However, several recent studies suggest that they have had no effect on welfare use. In this paper I attempt to reconcile those findings with results from Grogger and...
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This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U … is due to changes in how duration is measured, a consequence of the 1994 Current Population Survey redesign. Another part … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment …
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We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …
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) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …
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