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Immigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.

Grabowski, David C.; Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although debates over immigration remain contentious, one important sector served heavily by immigrants faces a …

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The Wealth of the Unemployed : Adequacy and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

Gruber, Jonathan - 1999

While there has been considerable discussion of the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of … income replacement, there is little evidence on the other resources that the unemployed have to finance their unemployment … financial assets sufficient to finance roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell, but that there is …

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Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

Gruber, Jonathan - 1995

Low rates of health insurance coverage among the non-employed have motivated consideration of policies to subsidize the purchase of insurance for those who are without a job. But there is little evidence on the extent to which coverage differentials between the employed and the non-employed...

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The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance

Gruber, Jonathan - 1994

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has focused on the costs of the program, in terms of the distorting … effects of generous UI benefits on worker and firm behavior. For assessing the optimal size of an unemployment insurance … replacement rate leads to a consumption fall upon unemployment which is 2.7% smaller. Over this period, the average fall in …

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Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical prediction that the current consumption of addictive goods should respond to future prices, and the key normative prediction that the optimal government regulation of addictive...

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Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

Coile, Courtney - 1999

This paper focuses on Social Security benefit claiming behavior, a take-up decision that has been ignored in the previous literature. Using financial calculations and simulations based on an expected utility maximization model, we show that delaying benefit claim for a period of time after...

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Cheaper By the Dozen : Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Dynarski, Susan - 2009

The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private schooling. We exploit a...

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Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

Gerber, Alan - 2008

Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity ("Blue laws") to measure the...

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A Tax-Based Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution

Gruber, Jonathan - 2006

used an Euler equation framework to estimate the EIS, relating the growth rate of consumption to the after-tax interest rate facing consumers. This large literature has, however, produced very mixed results, perhaps due to an important limitation: the impact of the interest rate on consumption...

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Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity?

Gruber, Jonathan - 2005

The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced smoking is increasing weight gain in the U.S.. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Chou et al. (2004), who conclude that higher cigarette prices lead to increased body...

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