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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
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The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation
Aksoy, Billur; Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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How do Behavioral Approaches to Increase Savings Compare? Evidence from Multiple Interventions in the U.S. Army
Patterson, Richard W.; Skimmyhorn, William L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Information provision, choice simplification, social messaging, active-choice frameworks, and automatic enrollment all increase retirement savings. However, gauging the relative efficacy of these approaches is challenging because the supporting evidence spans widely different institutional...
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The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models
Kaplan, Greg; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What model features and calibration strategies yield a large average marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in heterogeneous agent models? Through a systematic investigation of models with different preferences, dimensions of ex-ante heterogeneity, income processes and asset structure, we show...
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The Trickling Up of Excess Savings
Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a simple framework connecting the distribution of excess savings across households to the dynamics of aggregate demand. Deficit-financed fiscal transfers generate excess savings. The poorest households with the highest MPCs spend down their excess savings the fastest, increasing other...
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Excess Savings and Twin Deficits : The Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Open Economies
Aggarwal, Rishabh; Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
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Life-Cycle Effects on Consumption and Retirement
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1982
The effects on consumption and retirement of characteristics of the life cycle, especially the length of the horizon …-cycle effects on consumption and retirement are estimated jointly for 1973 and 1975. There is a weak small effect of a more distant … reducing consumption; goods and leisure are consumed jointly, suggesting their complementarity in household production; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478129
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Getting to the Top of Mind : How Reminders Increase Saving
Karlan, Dean - 2010
fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry … reminders may increase saving, and that reminders will be more effective when they increase the salience of a specific …
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Business Cycles, Consumption and Risk-Sharing : How Different Is China?
Curtis, Chadwick C. - 2010
, the model cannot account for the low level of consumption (or high saving) as a proportion of income observed in the data …. An examination of provincial level consumption data suggests that the absence of channels for intranational consumption … risk sharing may be an important reason why the business-cycle model has trouble accounting for Chinese consumption and …
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Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate : Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
Sahm, Claudia R. - 2009
help explain the aggregate movements in saving, spending, and debt in 2008. Because the rebate was large and distributed …
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