The Impact of Diversity on Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution [0.03%]
多样性对收入分配感知和再分配偏好的影响
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Does socioeconomic diversity affect people's perceptions of the income distribution and their preferences for redistribution? I exploit a financial aid reform that drastically raised the share of low-income students at an elite university i...
Measuring Take-up of the California EITC with State Administrative Data [0.03%]
利用州行政数据衡量加州EITC的使用情况
John Iselin,Taylor Mackay,Matthew Unrath
John Iselin
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest cash-based means-tested transfer program in the United States. In 2021, 31 million households received $64 billion from the federal EITC. Twenty-eight states also offer eligible taxpayers a...
Prescription Drug Advertising and Drug Utilization: The Role of Medicare Part D [0.03%]
医疗保险药物统筹对处方药广告效果的影响研究
Abby Alpert,Darius Lakdawalla,Neeraj Sood
Abby Alpert
This paper examines how direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs influences utilization by exploiting a large and plausibly exogenous shock to DTCA driven by the introduction of Medicare Part D. Part D led to larger incr...
Gopi Shah Goda,Evan J Soltas
Gopi Shah Goda
We show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one yea...
Spend as you were told: Evidence from labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments in South Korea [0.03%]
如人所言进行消费：来自韩国贴标的新冠肺炎经济刺激计划的证据
Seonghoon Kim,Kanghyock Koh,Wonjun Lyou
Seonghoon Kim
We test the income fungibility assumption from standard economic theory by analyzing spending responses to South Korea's labeled COVID-19 stimulus payments. We exploit unique policy rules for identification: (1) recipients cannot use paymen...
An evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program using administrative payroll microdata [0.03%]
使用行政工资微观数据对薪酬保护计划的评估
David Autor,David Cho,Leland D Crane et al.
David Autor et al.
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a principal element of the fiscal stimulus enacted by Congress in response to the COVID-19 economic shock, was intended to assist small businesses to maintain employment and wages during the crisis, as...
The impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on job search and vacancy creation [0.03%]
联邦流行病失业补贴对求职和职位创造的影响
Ioana Marinescu,Daphné Skandalis,Daniel Zhao
Ioana Marinescu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits by $600 a week. Theory predicts that FPUC should decrease job applications, while the effect on vacancy creation is ambig...
What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China [0.03%]
非民主领导的动机是什么：来自中国COVID-19重新开放的证据
Raymond Fisman,Hui Lin,Cong Sun et al.
Raymond Fisman et al.
We examine Chinese cities' COVID-19 reopening plans as a window into governments' economic and social priorities. We measure reopenings based on official government news announcements, and show that these are predicted by citizen discontent...
Peter Haan,Andreas Peichl,Annekatrin Schrenker et al.
Peter Haan et al.
This paper studies how the communication of political leaders affects the expectation formation of the public. Specifically, we examine the expectation management of the German government regarding COVID-19-related regulatory measures durin...
Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru [0.03%]
数字化提高税收遵从度的证据：来自秘鲁增值税电子发票的经验
Matthieu Bellon,Era Dabla-Norris,Salma Khalid et al.
Matthieu Bellon et al.
This paper examines the impact of switching from paper to electronic invoicing on firm tax compliance and performance using quasi-experimental variation in the roll-out of VAT e-invoicing in Peru. We find that e-invoicing increases reported...