Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate [0.03%]
美国劳动参与率下降之谜
Alan B Krueger
Alan B Krueger
The U.S. labor force participation rate has declined since 2007, primarily because of population aging and ongoing trends that preceded the Great Recession. The labor force participation rate has evolved differently, and for different reaso...
Anne Case,Angus Deaton
Anne Case
We build on and extend the findings in Case and Deaton (2015) on increases in mortality and morbidity among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife since the turn of the century. Increases in all-cause mortality continued unabated to 2015, ...
Steven J Davis,Till VON Wachter
Steven J Davis
Amitabh Chandra,Jonathan Holmes,Jonathan Skinner
Amitabh Chandra
Why have health care costs moderated in the last decade? Some have suggested that the Great Recession alone was the cause, but health expenditure growth in the depths of the recession was nearly identical to growth prior to the recession. N...
Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception [0.03%]
节育五十载：提高避孕药具可及性长期影响的新证据
Martha J Bailey
Martha J Bailey
This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large polic...
D M Cutler,J M Poterba,L M Sheiner et al.
D M Cutler et al.
"This paper steps back from the current political debate [in the United States] over the social security trust fund and examines the more general question of how serious a macroeconomic problem aging is and how policy should respond to it. ...
G J Borjas,R B Freeman,L F Katz
G J Borjas
"This paper provides new estimates of the impact of immigration and trade on the U.S. labor market.... We examine the relation between economic outcomes for native workers and immigrant flows to regional labor markets.... We...use the facto...
D E Bloom,J D Sachs
D E Bloom
W D Nordhaus
W D Nordhaus
The author examines some major concerns about global economic growth from both theoretical and empirical points of view, using "the limits-to-growth debate as a reference point to understand the earlier debate about the limits to and perils...