Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the US over the past few decades. To identify changes in ...
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Search frictions in the product market have been widely studied as a foundation of monetary theory. More recently, they have also been advanced as a possible ...
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The timing of transfers is critical to their value for recipients. Thus, although the bulk of family transfers occurs in the form of inheritances, inter-vivos ...
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Industrial policies, while often aimed at domestic industries, can spur technological progress abroad. We document this mechanism in the case of rare earth ...
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We study the interaction between monetary policy and labor supply decisions at the household level. We uncover evidence of heterogeneous responses and a strong ...
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How does an adverse economic shock affect families? We answer this question by exploiting a natural-experimental earthquake shock and unique panel data with ...
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We revisit the role of human capital in explaining the cross-country variation in GDP. We propose a general-equilibrium model in which workers of different ...
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We show empirically that 11 percent of recent US high school graduates did not apply for federal financial aid due to finding applying too difficult or ...
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