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Retirement Savings Incentives for Low‐ and Middle‐Income Individuals: Does Government Funded Matching Change Behaviour?*

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
We evaluate a government‐funded matching policy for retirement savings contributions targeted at low‐ and middle‐income individuals. Using a difference‐in‐difference approach, we exploit administrative changes to the Australian Government's retirement contribution matching (co‐contribution) policy to identify the impact of the programme on savings ...
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Humanitarian Migrants' Welfare Dependency through Language Support: Evidence from Australia's Adult Migrant English Program

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the impact of the UK job retention scheme on mental health and well‐being using matched difference‐in‐differences

open access: yesFiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 2020, the UK government implemented the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, otherwise known as furlough, to minimise the impact of job losses. The UK furlough protected jobs during the COVID‐19 crisis, covering up to 80 per cent of a worker's monthly wage for hours not worked. We evaluate the causal effects of furlough on mental health,
Christopher Deeming, Lateef Akanni
wiley   +1 more source

Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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