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Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …

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Privatizing Disability Insurance

Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022

sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing DI partly via a … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …

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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Gender, Perceived Discrimination and the Overruling of Roe v. Wade

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan - 2025

Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...

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Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists

Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul - 2022

In 2020 and 2021, the world witnessed policies that caused enormous net damage to nearly every country. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new WELLBY currency in gauging the costs and benefits of COVID policies and review the contributions of Australian economists to the scholarly and public...

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The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

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 cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...

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Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare

Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into …

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