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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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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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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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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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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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We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory … implementation dates. We find no evidence that the demand for older workers falls, but the welfare effects are mediated by spillovers …
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Recipients of government transfers are economically disadvantaged, yet little is known about how their circumstances evolve leading up to program receipt. Using twenty-five years of survey data as well as administrative health records, we establish three new stylized facts around enrollment in...
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Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected … families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find … criminal charges as young adults but do find evidence of intergenerational welfare transmission. …
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We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …
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, welfare and public sector pay changes over the 2008 to 2012 period gave rise to lower than average losses for the bottom …
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