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Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … substantial independence like UK academies and US charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular government …

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Inflation Targeting : Lessons from Four Countries

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 1998

first three countries to undertake such strategies New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It also analyzes the …

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Tax Credits and Child Outcomes : Lessons from the U.S., U.K., and Canada

Michelmore, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

, developed countries, including the U.S., Canada, and U.K. For all three of these countries, the turn of the 21st century marked …, focusing on what is known about child-oriented tax credits in the U.S. (EITC, CTC), the U.K. (WFTC, CTC, WTC), and Canada … (Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB), National Child Benefit (NCB), and the Canada Child Benefit (CCB). Overwhelmingly, the …

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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Ludwig, Jens - 2011

Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions,...

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Political Distribution Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations

Drautzburg, Thorsten - 2017

We argue that political distribution risk is an important driver of aggregate fluctuations. To that end, we document significant changes in the capital share after large political events, such as political realignments, modifications in collective bargaining rules, or the end of dictatorships,...

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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment

Moser, Christian A. - 2020

This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a cap on labor supply, which lowers economic output but improves health prospects. A government would like to commit to limit the extent of future lockdowns in order to increase...

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PLUS or Minus? : The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices

Black, Sandra E.; Turner, Lesley J.; Denning, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In 2006, the federal government effectively uncapped student borrowing for graduate programs with the introduction of the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the composition of their loans from private to federal debt....

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The FinTech Opportunity

Philippon, Thomas - 2016

This paper assesses the potential impact of FinTech on the finance industry, focusing on financial stability and access to services. I document first that financial services remain surprisingly expensive, which explains the emergence of new entrants. I then argue that the current regulatory...

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy - 2004

similar to many other policies designed to 'make work pay' currently under debate or in place in the US, the UK and elsewhere …

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Free-Riding Yankees : Canada and the Panama Canal

Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the impact of the Panama Canal on the development of Canada's manufacturing sector in the years from 1900 to … integration of marginally productive Canadian counties with key markets both inside and outside of Canada. This development …

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