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Aggregate and Intergenerational Implications of School Closures: A Quantitative Assessment

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This paper quantitatively investigates the medium- and long-term macroeconomic and distributional consequences of school closures through intergenerational channels.
Youngsoo Jang, Minchul Yum
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Luxuries, Necessities, and the Allocation of Time

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Households enjoy utility from activities that require a combination of time and goods. We classify activities into two types: luxuries and necessities. Luxuries (necessities) are activities for which time and expenditure shares rise (decline) with income.
Lei Fang, Anne Hannusch, Pedro Silos
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

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We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes in firm-reported payments to “gig” and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals
A. Garin, Emilie Jackson, Dmitri Koustas
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Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

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We design, pilot, and field a new survey of job skills in Peru to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the United States.
Andrea Atencio-De-Leon, Munseob Lee, Claudia Macaluso   +2 more
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors

, 2010
Marianne Bertrand, C. Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz   +2 more
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession

, 2012
Philip Oreopoulos, Till M. von Wachter, Andrew Heisz   +2 more
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades: A Reassessment

, 2010
David H. Autor, A. Manning, Christopher L. Smith   +2 more
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Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia

The American Economic Review, 2020
We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men.
Leonardo Bursztyn, Alessandra L. González, David Yanagizawa-Drott   +2 more
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Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We randomly offered a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, or both to mothers of three-to-five-year-old children. The childcare subsidy substantially increased the labor supply and earnings of single mothers, highlighting the importance of time ...
K. Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville, L. Vandewalle   +5 more
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Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Labor income earned in Iceland in 1987 went untaxed. I use this episode to study labor supply responses to temporary wage changes. Using a population-wide dataset of earnings and working time and two identification strategies, I estimate intensive and ...
Jósef Sigurdsson
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