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The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2019
Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Current Population...
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Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows : The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
Coppola, Antonio - 2020
Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482036
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Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources : a Fully Automated Approach
Abramitzky, Ran - 2018
Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. We suggest a fully automated method for linking...
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Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2018
Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...
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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2005
"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522578
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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470949
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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
Mexico …
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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000
Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …
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Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging : Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s
Cutler, David M. - 2000
We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …
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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina
Goldberg, Linda - 2000
studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with … with high levels of impaired assets (Mexico) have more stagnant loan growth and weak responsiveness to market signals …
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