A vast literature analyzes the real effects of price-adjustment costs assuming that quantity adjustments are costless. In this paper the authors analyze whether the presence of quantity-adjustments costs, which presumably are significant, change the traditional results on the impact of...

We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is small if the likelihood of living to this age is...

A large literature evaluating the welfare effects of taxation has examined the role of the labor supply elasticity, and has shown that the estimated welfare effects are highly sensitive to its size. A common feature of this literature is its exclusive focus on hours worked and the associated...