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Health Insurance and the Boomerang Generation : Did the 2010 ACA Dependent Care Provision affect Geographic Mobility and Living Arrangements among Young Adults?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2017

We test whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to live with/near parents and to receive food assistance. Data come from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Findings indicate that the provision is associated with a 3.0 percentage...

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Macroeconomic-Driven Prepayment Risk and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Chernov, Mikhail - 2016

We introduce a reduced-form modeling framework for mortgage-backed securities in which we solve for the implied prepayment function from the cross section of market prices. From the implied prepayment function, we find that prepayment rates are driven not only by interest rates, but also by two...

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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...

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Immigration, trade, and the labor market

Abowd, John M. (ed.); Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor) - 1991

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and … phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity …, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation …

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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans : New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations

Costa, Dora L.; Lewis, CoraLee; Yetter, Noelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of...

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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

little about the dynamics--magnitude, timing, and persistence--of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel … high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration response to conflict for the case of the Mexican Revolution (1910 … migration rates of about 60 percent that lasted for a few months: after five months, migration rates reverted back to pre …

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...

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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

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Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection : Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc

Abramitzky, Ran; Baseler, Travis; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants' self-selection out of the USSR and its satellite states before and after the collapse of Communism using census microdata from the three largest destination countries: Germany, Israel, and the United States. We find that migrants...

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