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What Explains the Gender Gap in Wealth? Evidence from Administrative Data
Meriküll, Jaanika - 2020
This paper studies the gender gap in net wealth. We use administrative data on wealth that are linked to the Estonian Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides individual-level wealth data for all household types. We find that the unconditional gender gap in mean wealth is 45% and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481878
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The American economy in transition
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000077494
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000122609
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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470993
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Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice : An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Berman, Eli - 1998
The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox population doubles each seventeen years. With 60 % of prime aged males attending Yeshiva rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose Yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize Yeshiva...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472099
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An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Magnet Debate Using the NLSY
Levine, Phillip B. - 1995
This paper examines the extent to which differences in welfare generosity across states leads to interstate migration. Using microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) between 1979 and 1992, we employ a quasi-experimental design that utilizes the categorical eligibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473611
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Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Infrastructure : Evidence from State Highways
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1995
Is public sector infrastructure a key determinant of productivity? Traditional, project-based analyses of benefits and costs typically do not find large rates of return. Proponents of infrastructure spending instead point to regression-based analyses of the links between private productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473889
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State Abortion Rates : The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment
Blank, Rebecca M. - 1994
This paper uses data on abortion rates from 1974-88, to estimate two-stage least squares models with fixed state and year effects. The results indicate that implementing restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion results in lower aggregate abortion rates in-state and higher abortion rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474058
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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994
Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474091
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Propogation of Shocks in a High-Inflation Economy : Israel, 1980-85
Leiderman, Leonardo - 1986
-inflation economy. Do one-time inflationary shocks give rise to long-term persistence, or inertia? Do balance of payments' shocks …
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