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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems : An International Comparison

Beshears, John - 2015

What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

Avery, Christopher - 2004

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high- achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...

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Do Temporary Cash Transfers Stimulate the Macroeconomy? Evidence from Four Case Studies

Ramey, Valerie A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

transfers in Singapore and Australia. In all four instances, the evidence suggests that temporary cash transfers to households …

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Linking Benefits to Investment Performance in US Public Pension Systems

Novy-Marx, Robert - 2012

This paper calculates the effect that introducing risk-sharing during either retirement or the working life would have on public sector pension liabilities. We begin by considering the introduction of a variable annuity for the retirement phase, modeled on the Wisconsin Retirement System, in...

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Measuring Returns to Experience Using Supervisor Ratings of Observed Performance : The Case of Classroom Teachers

Bell, Courtney A.; James, Jessalynn K.; Taylor, Eric S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences...

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Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?

Chandra, Amitabh; Dalton, Maurice; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as mortality, readmissions, inpatient...

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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …

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How Much Might Universal Health Insurance Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Health? A Comparison of the US and Canada

Decker, Sandra L. - 2004

income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … percentage points in Canada. We also find that the 7 percentage point gradient difference between the two countries is reduced by … larger in the US than in Canada before the age of 65, but about the same after 65. Our results are therefore consistent with …

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How "Original Sin" was Overcome : The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions

Bordo, Michael D. - 2003

several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …

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Long Time Out : Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States

Kroft, Kory - 2018

We compare patterns of unemployment and joblessness between Canada and the U.S. during the Great Recession. Similar to … previous findings for the U.S. in Kroft et al. [2016], we document a rise in long-term unemployment in Canada. This increase is … the extended matching model, we create a new historical vacancy series for Canada based on relative employment in …

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