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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...

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Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

We examine the implications for borrowing costs of including collective-action clauses in loan contracts. For a sample of some 2,000 international bonds, we compare the spreads on bonds subject to UK governing law, which typically include collective-action clauses, with spreads on bonds subject...

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Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

Ponds, Eduard - 2011

liabilities in fair value terms as of the end of 2008. This fiscal burden can also be interpreted as the implicit pension debt in …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

Taylor, Alan M. - 1996

Although the empirical growth literature has yielded many findings on postwar convergence patterns, it has had little to say about the determinants of convergence in earlier epochs. This paper investigates convergence for group of seven countries during the period 1870-1914, the last great phase...

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall during the Financial Crisis in Australia

Svensson, Lars E. O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The "debt-overhang hypothesis" - that households cut back more on their spending in a crisis when they have higher … levels of outstanding mortgage debt (Dynan, 2012) - seems to be taken for granted by macroprudential authorities in several …' macroprudential policy. New results for Australian microdata are presented that reject the debt-overhang hypothesis. The results …

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