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Replacing student grants with loans : evidence from a Swedish policy reform
Brandén, Gunnar - 2022
The Recruitment grant was a student aid policy that replaced the loans in the student aid system with grants for unemployed adults with low education. In this paper, I estimate the causal effects of repealing this policy on the educational attainment and subsequent labor market outcomes for the...
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Short and long-run distributional impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Neidhöfer, Guido - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 96-116
We simulate the short- and long-term distributional consequences of COVID-19 in the four largest Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be very significant, but that additional spending on social...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Lockdown Consequences : Prognosis of the Longer-Run Persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221649
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Intergenerational Transmission of Lockdown Consequences : Prognosis of the Longer-Run Persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246748
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The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2020
We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to...
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences : prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534595
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Persistent Effects of Social Program Participation on the Third Generation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can participation in safety net programs have long-lasting negative effects across multiple generations? Prior work shows a 1993 Dutch disability insurance reform which tightened requirements and lowered benefits for participants resulted in better outcomes for their children. We study the third...
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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …, Denmark is the only country where the number and design of policy changes and the longitudinal individual data availability …
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Childhood housing and adult earnings : a between-siblings analysis of housing vouchers and public housing
Andersson, Fredrik; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kutzbach, Mark J. - 2016
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