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Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the …
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We study how government policies and corporate commitments to decarbonize interact under two externalities: environmental damages and green innovation spillovers. Unconstrained carbon taxes and innovation subsidies could achieve first-best outcomes, but when government policies face constraints,...
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Central bank balance sheet expansion is financed by commercial banks. It involves not just a substitution of liquid central bank reserves for other assets held by commercial banks, but also a counterpart alteration in commercial bank liabilities, such as in short-term deposits issued to finance...
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of lifetime resources motivated by economic theory that account for differences in life-cycle trajectories, and …
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health by education and race. Connecting theory and empirical work offers an important tool for economists studying health …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …
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