Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...

Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...

Legalizing abortion can either increase or decrease investments in childrens human capital. This article finds that abortion increases the number of out-of-wedlock births. Using data that more directly links the criminal with age when the crime was committed, not age when arrested, and fixing...

Household indebtedness has risen rapidly in relation to incomes in recent years. But aggregate data cannot indicate which types of households - by age, income or wealth - have accumulated the most debts. This article uses information from the latest British Household Panel Survey (for the year...

Household arrears on payment obligations are one of the most direct measures of household sector financial stress. This paper uses a time series approach to model two of the key components of aggregate UK household arrears: those on mortgages and credit cards. Mortgages are the main component of...

Credit channel models emphasise the importance of financial variables in macroeconomic responses to unanticipated economic events. In this paper empirical models are developed that relate implicit interest rates paid by firms to measures of their financial health (principally capital gearing)...