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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2017

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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Real-Time Real Economic Activity : Exiting the Great Recession and Entering the Pandemic Recession

Diebold, Francis X. - 2020

We study the real-time signals provided by the Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Index of Business conditions (ADS) for tracking economic activity at high frequency. We start with exit from the Great Recession, comparing the evolution of real-time vintage beliefs to a "final" late-vintage chronology. We...

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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020

Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...

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Racial bias in bail decisions

Arnold, David; Dobbie, Will; Yang, Crystal - 2017

This paper develops a new test for identifying racial bias in the context of bail decisions – a high-stakes setting … bias, which predicts that rates of pre-trial misconduct will be identical for marginal white and marginal black defendants … substantially more racial bias among both inexperienced and part-time judges. We also find that both black and white judges are …

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