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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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An analysis of postwar US consumption and saving
Boskin, Michael J.; Lau, Lawrence J.
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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
consumption also significantly fell whenever employment became financially less attractive, as it was while unemployment bonuses … participating most in UI. A corollary to this analysis is that national employment rates will be slow to recover due to the …
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School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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The Distributional Effects of Trade : Theory and Evidence from the United States
Borusyak, Kirill; Jaravel, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How much do consumption patterns matter for the impact of international trade on inequality? In neoclassical trade models, the effects of trade shocks on consumers' purchasing power are governed by the shares of imports in consumer expenditures, under no parametric assumptions on preferences and...
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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families--the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...
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How Economic Development Influences the Environment
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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Welfare Costs of Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Consumption Shocks
Kōnstantinidēs, Giōrgos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I estimate welfare benefits of eliminating idiosyncratic consumption shocks unrelated to the business cycle as 47.3% of household utility and benefits of eliminating idiosyncratic shocks related to the business cycle as 3.4% of utility. Estimates of the former substantially exceed earlier ones...
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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data
Meyer, Bruce D.; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...
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