Pedro Brinca,Joao B Duarte,Miguel Faria-E-Castro
Pedro Brinca
We measure labor demand and supply shocks at the sector level around the COVID-19 outbreak by estimating a Bayesian structural vector autoregression on monthly statistics of hours worked and real wages. Most sectors were subject to large ne...
Jake Bradley,Alessandro Ruggieri,Adam Hal Spencer
Jake Bradley
This paper develops a choice-theoretic equilibrium model of the labor market in the presence of a pandemic. It includes heterogeneity in productivity, age and the ability to work from home. Worker and firm behavior changes in the presence o...
Unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II and their effect on fertility: A life cycle perspective [0.03%]
德国二战期间产生的性别比失衡及其对生育率的影响——生命周期视角
Iris Kesternich,Bettina Siflinger,James P Smith et al.
Iris Kesternich et al.
This paper analyzes the effects of permanently unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II on fertility outcomes over the life cycle. Using Census records linked with individual biography data, our analysis confirms the commonly...
Nezih Guner,Yuliya Kulikova,Joan Llull
Nezih Guner
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we analyze the health gap between married and unmarried individuals of working-age. Controlling for observables, we find a gap that p...
Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Euijin Jung
Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium [0.03%]
老龄化背景下提高大学学历的普遍均衡影响分析
Juan Carlos Conesa,Timothy J Kehoe,Vegard M Nygaard et al.
Juan Carlos Conesa et al.
We develop an overlapping generations general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy with heterogeneous consumers who face idiosyncratic earnings and health risk to study the implications of increasing college attainment, decreasing fertilit...
Wage inequality and poverty effects of lockdown and social distancing in Europe [0.03%]
封锁和社交距离对欧洲工资不平等及贫困的影响
Juan C Palomino,Juan G Rodríguez,Raquel Sebastian
Juan C Palomino
Social distancing and lockdown measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 may have distributional economic costs beyond the contraction of GDP. Here we evaluate the capacity of individuals to work under a lockdown based on a Lockdown ...
Natural shocks and marriage markets: Fluctuations in mehr and dowry in Muslim marriages [0.03%]
自然冲击与婚姻市场：穆斯林婚约中的مهر和嫁妆的波动
Shyamal Chowdhury,Debdulal Mallick,Prabal Roy Chowdhury
Shyamal Chowdhury
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry, a transfer from the bride's family to the groom at the time of marriage, have fluctuated in Bangladesh due to natural shocks. We develop a...
Cameron Hepburn,Nicholas Stern,Joseph E Stiglitz
Cameron Hepburn
Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program [0.03%]
性别差异与有影响力的幼儿教育项目益处之间的关系研究
Jorge Luis García,James J Heckman,Anna L Ziff
Jorge Luis García
This paper studies the life-cycle impacts of a widely-emulated high-quality, intensive early childhood program with long-term follow up. The program starts early in life (at 8 weeks of age) and is evaluated by an RCT. There are multiple tre...