affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …

important not just to economists trying to understand where the economy is going but also to the broader public and to the … the limits of our knowledge and to adjust public statements and policies to what we can know.This paper is not about the …

-interstate, and Local System levels to estimate the contribution of all highways (all public roads) to GDP growth. It presents three …