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MPEC 2023-H55 : 2023 HT

2023
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High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1 Percent? Lessons from a Life-Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022
This paper argues that high marginal labor income tax rates on top earners are an effective tool for social insurance even when households have high labor supply elasticity, households make dynamic savings decisions, and policies have general equilibrium
F. Kindermann, Dirk Krueger
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The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health

Journal of Economic Literature, 2023
We investigate the effect of income on the long-standing racial mortality gap in the United States by using evidence from White and Black Civil War veterans who went on to receive postwar pensions.
Shari Jane Eli, Trevon D. Logan, Boriana Miloucheva   +2 more
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Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We conducted a direct mail field experiment with 4,016,461 individuals to test several key hypotheses about why take-up of Supplemental Security Income among individuals age 65 and above is so low.
Jeffrey Hemmeter, J. Phillips, E. Safran, N. Wilson   +3 more
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Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis

The American Economic Review
Economists routinely make functional form assumptions on demand curves to derive welfare conclusions. How sensitive are these conclusions to such assumptions? In this paper, we develop robustness measures that quantify the extent to which the true demand
Zi Yang Kang, S. Vasserman
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Study of Morphological Variations of The Human Ear for its Applications in Personal Identification

Indus Journal of Bioscience Research
The external human ear is considered to be a remarkably diverse structure, displaying a wide array of personal and morphological traits across different individuals and demographic groups. The study evaluates ear morphological features in a Swat district
Miraj Khalid, Shahid Ali, Waseem Shah, Fazal Akbar, Muhammad Israr, Asadullah, Zahid Hussain, Arshad Iqbal, Nisar Ahmad, Ishaq Khan, Wajid Khan, Murad Ali Rahat   +11 more
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The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016
This paper utilizes the county-by-county rollout of China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) and finds that, among age-eligible people, the pension scheme leads to higher household income and food expenditure, less farmwork, better health, and lower ...
Wei Huang, Wei Huang, Chuanchuan Zhang
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Structure-Based Optimization of Novel Sterol 24-C-Methyltransferase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Candida albicans Infections.

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Interfering with sterol biosynthesis is an important strategy for developing safe and effective antifungal drugs. We previously identified compound H55 as an allosteric inhibitor of the fungal-specific C-24 sterol methyltransferase Erg6 for treating ...
Xue Wang, Xueyang Jin, Fabao Zhao, Zejun Xu, Wenzhuo Tan, Jiaozhen Zhang, Yuliang Xu, Xiaoyi Luan, Min Fang, Zhiyu Xie, Wenqiang Chang, Hongxiang Lou   +11 more
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Forage accumulation, nutritive value, and grazing efficiency on rotationally stocked ‘Zuri’ guineagrass pastures as affected by pre‐graze canopy height and N rate

Grass and Forage Science
Grazing management and nitrogen fertilisation may affect forage accumulation (FA), nutritive value, and grazing efficiency (GE) of the highly productive ‘Zuri’ guineagrass [Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K.Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs syn. Panicum maximum Jacq.].
O. G. de Almeida, C. Pedreira, Juliana Aparecida de Assis, V. J. da Silva, B. C. Pedreira   +4 more
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Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits

The American Economic Review
We combine quasi-experimental variation in spousal death and age eligibility for survivors benefits using US tax records to study the effects on American households’ labor supply and the design of social security’s survivors insurance.
D. Coyne, Itzik Fadlon, Shanthi P. Ramnath, Patricia K. Tong   +3 more
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