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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...
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This paper studies the consumption response to an increase in the domestic value of foreign currency household debt … with nonhomothetic preferences and "flight from quality." We find no effect on overall household labor supply, consistent …
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This paper puts forward a global macro model comprising 43 countries and covering the period from Q1 1995 to Q4 2011. Our regional focus is on countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Applying a global VAR (GVAR) model, we...
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The use of payment cards, either debit or credit, is becoming more and more widespread in developed economies. Nevertheless, the use of cash remains significant. We hypothesize that the lack of card acceptance at the point of sale is a key reason why cash continues to play an important role. We...
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This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an economy with search frictions and firm commitment. We develop an equilibrium search model with worker and firm shocks and characterize the optimal contract offered by competing...
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To drive economic development, it is important for policy makers to have a good understanding of the linkages between imports, exports, and the rest of the economy. This is particularly true for Africa. The continent depends on exports of commodities to finance imports of manufactured goods for...
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In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...
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, based on the British Household Panel Survey data, we find the consistent pattern that both the most severe cases and the …
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Intergenerational mobility is a subject of a large literature in social science. It focuses on the association between parents' and children's economic wellbeing and receives significant attention because it speaks to the question of equality of opportunity (Torche, 2015), which many consider an...
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and supply. Precise estimation of parameter estimates is therefore crucial to obtain realistic economic predictions. The … estimates of the structural parameters. With access to micro data, the approach allows for the estimation of highly flexible … patterns without substantially altering the procedure of estimation, making it relevant for practitioners. The BLP estimator is …
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