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Public Financing and Racial Disparities: Does a Rising Tide Always Lift All Boats?

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
This paper studies the heterogeneous impact of local government spending across racial groups. An exogenous increase in spending results in significant improvement in White, but not Black or Hispanic, labor market outcomes such as employment rate, weekly
Tian Qiu
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Singles, Couples, and Their Labor Supply: Long-Run Trends and Short-Run Fluctuations

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Women's increased involvement in the economy has been an important change in labor markets during the past century. I show that a macroeconomic model taking into account gender and household composition in an otherwise parsimonious off-the-shelf setting ...
Jonna Olsson
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Measuring the Contribution of Unpaid Female Labour in National Income of India

Studies in Microeconomics
Research papers on female labour force participation (FLFP) are neither rare nor uncommon. However, papers measuring unpaid female labour are not many. This paper estimates the increase in gross domestic product (GDP) due to an increase in FLFP using two
Archita Mukherjee
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Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation, and Application to Job Search

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time.
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller   +2 more
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Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We study the impact of entertainment technology on labor supply. Using Social Security work histories and a natural experiment arising from the regulated US rollout of television, we estimate that a station launch reduced the probability of working by ...
G. Fenton, Felix Koenig
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Asymmetric Players in a Meritocracy: A Case for Affirmative Action

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We model decisions to apply for college admission, attend job auditions, or run for C-suite positions as costly entry into meritocracies, where the entrant with the highest ability wins a reward.
Tanjim Hossain, John Morgan
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You're the One That I Want! Understanding the Overrepresentation of Women in the Public Sector

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
The public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. Using microdata, we document gender differences in employment, transition probabilities, hours, and wages in the public and private sector.
Pedro Gomes, Zoë Kuehn
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Consomme-t-on pour se libérer du temps ? Un test empirique de la théorie de la production domestique

Revue économique
En estimant un système complet de demande de temps et de biens, cet article teste la validité de la théorie de la production domestique. L’approche tient compte de la différence entre prix virtuel du temps et taux de salaire.
Anil Alpman
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Partial Specialization and Heterogeneous Task Assignments

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
I develop a general equilibrium model featuring multidimensional skills and partial specialization in tasks to quantify the impact of several determinants on within-occupation inequality growth from 1980 to 2000.
Chen Liu
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