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Older Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2016

The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...

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Explaining pension dynamics

Luzadis, Rebecca A. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 26 (1991) 4, pp. 679-703

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Money and Interest Rates in the United States During the Great Depression

Basile, Peter - 2010

This paper reexamines the debate over whether the United States fell into a liquidity trap in the 1930s. We first review the literature on the liquidity trap focusing on Keynes's discussion of "absolute liquidity preference" and the division that soon emerged between Keynes, who believed that a...

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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...

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Not Just the Great Contraction : Friedman and Schwartz's a Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

A Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960 published in 1963 was written as part of an extensive NBER research project on Money and Business Cycles started in the 1950s. The project resulted in three more books and many important articles. A Monetary History was designed to provide...

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War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the First Iraq War

Rockoff, Hugh - 2015

The institutional arrangements governing the creation of money in the United States have changed dramatically since the Revolution. Yet beneath the surface the story of wartime money creation has remained much the same. During wars against minor powers, the government was able to fund the war by...

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The U.S. Economy in Wwii as a Model for Coping with Climate Change

Rockoff, Hugh - 2016

During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw materials needed for the war effort. This paper explores the mobilization to see whether it provides...

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Pensions and the U.S. Labor Market

Gustman, Alan L.; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2021

market. Available evidence indicates that pensions must be viewed as part of a long-term employment relation. For this reason … and employment Combining information on employee characteristics, turnover and retirement patterns, company inputs and …-side information with employment and wage histories of employees …

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A Comparison of the United States and Canadian Banking Systems in the Twentieth Century : Stability vs. Efficiency?

Bordo, Michael D.; Rockoff, Hugh; Redish, Angela - 2021

This paper asks whether the vaunted comparative stability of the Canadian banking system has been purchased at the cost of creating an oligopoly. We assembled a data set that compares bank failures, lending rates, interest paid on deposits and related variables over the period 1920 to 1980. Our...

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Prodigals and Projecture : An Economic History of Usury Laws in the United States from Colonial Times to 1900

Rockoff, Hugh - 2021

During the Colonial era usury laws in the United States were strict both in terms of the maximum rate that could be charged and the penalties that would be imposed. In Massachusetts in eighteenth century, for example, the maximum rate was 6 percent, and both principal and interest were forfeited...

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