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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...

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At the very edge of a storm : the impact of a distant cyclone on Atoll Islands

Taupo, Tauisi; Noy, Ilan - 2016

experienced significant damage due to the storm surge caused by the cyclone, even if the cyclone itself passed very far away … under-estimation of the disaster risk facing low-lying atoll islands. Lastly, we constructed hypothetical policy scenarios …

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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane harvey

Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021

Latinx neighborhoods that were low-income and among those located outside of FEMA's 100-year floodplain (and therefore less …

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The social value of predicting hurricanes

Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022

Hurricanes are among the costliest natural disasters in the world, with a significant portion of their impact linked to the accuracy of their forecasts. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of the official hurricane forecasts in the US and develop a new approach for measuring the...

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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

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Welfare time limits in the United States : experiences with a new welfare-to-work approach

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004

. Income effects change from positive to neutral in subsequent periods. …

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The lifecycle of the 47%

Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016

with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …

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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016

males who were born in the South and experienced a hurricane either in utero or as infants had lower income at ages 42 to 53 …

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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016

how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …

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The private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education : a general framework and some results for the EU

Fuente, Ángel de la (contributor); … - 2005

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...

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