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Altruism, Macroeconomic Aggregates and the Cyclical Behavior of Fertility : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Abo-Zaid, Salem M. - 2015

Using U.S. data for 1976-2013, this paper studies the effects of various macroeconomic variables, particularly the national debt, government budget deficits and taxes, on fertility decisions over the business cycle. A rise in the debt-GDP ratio, government spending-GDP ratio and the deficit-GDP...

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Immigrant birthcountry networks and unemployment duration : evidence around the Great Recession

Mundra, Kusum; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

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Spending after Job Loss from the Great Recession through COVID-19 : The Roles of Financial Health, Race, and Policy

Greig, Fiona; Wheat, Chris; Eckerd, George; O'Brien, Melissa - 2021

Using an administrative dataset covering 2 million job loss events we analyze the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on spending from 2008 to 2020. We find that during the Great Recession spending cuts after job loss were deeper than in the subsequent expansion, but in the COVID-19...

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What happens to household formation in a recession?

Lee, Kwan Ok; Painter, Gary - In: Journal of Urban Economics 76 (2013) C, pp. 93-109

While many studies have investigated the determinants of housing demand, very few studies have focused on how economic conditions affect the formation of potential households directly. Potential households may choose to delay entry into the housing market by remaining with one’s parents during...

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Income Gains and the Geography of the US Home Ownership Boom, 1940 to 1960

Collins, William J.; Niemesh, Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Income and home ownership both surged in the United States between 1940 and 1960. We use cross-place variation in changes in real income to assess the importance of income gains to the mid-century home ownership boom. OLS and IV estimates suggest that a large share of the overall increase in...

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The impact of the recession on the wealth of older immigrant and native households in the United States

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-27

Using the 2006 and 2010 Health and Retirement Study, we explore how the recent recession impacted the wealth holding and retirement plans of older households in the United States. Of particular interest to us is whether the impact on household asset ownership, asset wealth and household...

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Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. agricultural labor market

Fan, Maoyong; Alves Pena, Anita; Perloff, Jeffrey M. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 98 (2016) 4, pp. 1146-1157

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The role of future economic conditions in the cross-section of stock returns : evidence from the US and UK

Sheng, Zhu; Gao, Jun; Sherman, Meadhbh - In: Research in international business and finance 52 (2020), pp. 1-11

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Monetary policy, self-fulfilling expectations and the U.S. business cycle

Nicolò, Giovanni - 2020

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Expectations during the U.S. housing boom : inferring beliefs from actions

Ben-David, Itzhak; Towbin, Pascal; Weber, Sebastian - 2019

We infer the role of price expectations in forming the U.S. housing boom in the early-2000s from examining housing … shocks to expectations (high vacancy). Using a structural vector autoregression with sign restrictions, we show that …

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