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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform

Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2020

Moonlighting is increasingly popular in OECD countries, with 5 to 10% of workers holding two or more jobs. However, little is known about the responsiveness of moonlighting to financial incentives due to the lack of identifying variation. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that...

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...

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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo

Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

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Friends with Benefits : Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior

Cannon, Brad; Hirshleifer, David; Thornton, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using friendship data from Facebook, we study the effects of three aspects of social capital on household financial behavior. We find that the most important measure of social capital in explaining stock market and saving participation is Economic Connectedness, defined as the fraction of one's...

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Inflation's Impact on American Households

Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Eidschun, Erin F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The post-COVID price surge has reignited interest in inflation's impact on American households. Even if anticipated and with full market adjustments, inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal system, which is the focus of this paper. Inflation affects households...

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Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior : Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank

Arthi, Vellore; Richardson, Gary; Van Orden, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of racial exploitation in post-Emancipation history. It was also most Black Americans' first experience of banking. Can...

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Charity : Have the Rates of US Households Contributing Money or Time Declined?

Smith, Vincent Kerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses the responses to questions about charitable contributions from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) between 1992 and 2022 to consider the rates of US households contributing money or time to charitable organizations. The fraction donating $500 or more remained relatively...

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Unequal Uptake : Assessing Distributional Disparities in the Residential Solar Market

Dorsey, Jackson; Wolfson, Derek C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine technology adoption and consumer welfare disparities across demographic groups using data from an online solar photovoltaic (PV) marketplace. Low-income households are 25% less likely to purchase solar through the platform and obtain 53% lower expected consumer surplus than...

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Why do people stay poor?

Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …

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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

Brown, Charles - 1985

This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...

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