The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

This paper studies the implications of household financial choices for the effects of monetary policy on consumption … income ratios by education and country. The policy functions based upon the estimation are used to characterize the … heterogeneity in consumption responses, monetary policy, operating through its effects on household income and asset market returns …

results because it does not require structural estimation of primitives …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …

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 …

) 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 …

duration (PBD) on reservation wages and on other dimensions of job selectivity, using a difference-in-difference strategy. We … of hours, duration of labor contract and commuting time/distance. The estimated elasticity of actual benefit duration …