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The U.S. poverty rate, like many other aggregate economic time series, shows considerable persistence. It is logical to … consider the model involving a unit root to provide a good description of the data generation process for the poverty rate. We … pretest for unit roots in annual U.S. poverty rate data for the postwar period to examine its long-run features given the …
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estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …
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Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
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Vector autoregressions combined with Minnesota-type priors are widely used for macroeconomic forecasting. The fact that strong but sensible priors can substantially improve forecast performance implies VAR forecasts are sensitive to prior hyperparameters. But the nature of this sensitivity is...
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