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We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer-employee data, we show that a key benefit of attending the...
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As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along … both before and during the pandemic.In normal times, realized inflation barely differs across observable dimensions but low …
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As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along … both before and during the pandemic. In normal times, realized inflation barely differs across observable dimensions but …
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As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along … both before and during the pandemic. In normal times, realized inflation barely differs across observable dimensions but …
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being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than …
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being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than …
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being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than …
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We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households’ spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and...
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Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal … and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households’ expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in … the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations of information about the severity of the pandemic, recent actions …
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