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This paper estimates the dynamic aggregate effect of exogenous shocks to two key components of public expenditure in the United States: government income transfers and government spending. The identification strategy positions the structural shocks to public expenditures in an SVAR framework...
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smoked react differently to serious, smoking related health shocks. The results support the conclusion that smokers have a … different risk perception process. Smokers were only sensitive to their own smoking related illnesses while former smokers and … smokers react to information messages, suggest that generalized messages about the hazards of smoking may be less effective …
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mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …
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to capture intrahousehold dimensions of women's empowerment. Endogenous status in our study is measured by mothers' work … and wasting. We therefore conclude that mothers' status, measured by time is more important to improve child nutritional …
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This paper addresses the often neglected question of how macroeconomic risk is shared across and within economies, and identifies reforms that could contribute towards achieving more desirable risksharing outcomes. For risk-sharing across countries, the paper discusses possibilities for...
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This paper estimates the aggregate effect of government income transfer shocks for a sample of EU countries. The new measure of transfer shocks builds on a dataset by public finance experts of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The identification strategy consists of a narrative...
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This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an institutional feature that caused differential and unexpected income losses among otherwise identical individuals in a sharp regression discontinuity design. We conclude that...
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This paper examines whether the COVID-19-induced employment shocks have increased suicides and safety net use in the second and third quarters of 2020. We exploit plausibly exogenous regional variation in the magnitude of the employment shocks in Japan and adopt a difference-in-differences...
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We evaluate the impact of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in the Philippines, on household welfare in the presence of various shocks to household members such as death, illness, loss of employment, business failure, and natural or man-made...
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This paper estimates the aggregate effects of government income transfers shocks for a sample of EU countries. I construct a new measure of transfers shocks based on a dataset by public finance experts of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The identification strategy consists of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281318