Politics and the distribution of federal funds: Evidence from federal legislation in response to COVID-19 [0.03%]
政治如何影响联邦基金的分配：来自应对新冠疫情的联邦立法的证据
Jeffrey Clemens,Stan Veuger
Jeffrey Clemens
COVID-19 relief legislation offers a unique setting to study how political representation shapes the distribution of federal assistance to state and local governments. We provide evidence of a substantial small-state bias: an additional Sen...
Orazio Attanasio,Richard Blundell,Gabriella Conti et al.
Orazio Attanasio et al.
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify two...
Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time [0.03%]
家庭在教育冲击下的适应不平等性：实时观察由新冠引起的在线学习参与度变化
Andrew Bacher-Hicks,Joshua Goodman,Christine Mulhern
Andrew Bacher-Hicks
We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-c...
Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science? [0.03%]
专家的反击：COVID-19会重塑还是削弱公众对科学的信任？
Barry Eichengreen,Cevat Giray Aksoy,Orkun Saka
Barry Eichengreen
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in s...
Do Financial Incentives Aimed at Decreasing Inter household Inequality Increase Intra household Inequality? [0.03%]
旨在减少家庭间不平等的经济激励措施会增加家庭内的不平等吗？
Amanda Chuan,John List,Anya Samek
Amanda Chuan
Research has shown that giving disadvantaged families financial incentives to invest in their children could decrease socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We u...
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession [0.03%]
经济状况对残疾保险计划的影响：来自大衰退的证据
Nicole Maestas,Kathleen J Mullen,Alexander Strand
Nicole Maestas
We examine the effect of job displacement during the Great Recession on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. Exploiting variation in the severity and timing of the recession across states, we estimate the effect of unemp...
Signe-Mary McKernan,Caroline Ratcliffe,Breno Braga
Signe-Mary McKernan
We address a question at the center of many policy debates: how effective is the US safety net? Many existing studies evaluate the effect of one program on economic hardship in isolation, though families typically participate in multiple pr...
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
选举考量减少新冠疫情期间的限制措施
Massimo Pulejo,Pablo Querubín
Massimo Pulejo
The outbreak of COVID-19 has called for swift action by governments, often involving the adoption of restrictive measures such as lockdowns. In this context, leaders have faced a trade-off between imposing stringent measures to limit the co...
Timothy Halliday,Bhashkar Mazumder,Ashley Wong
Timothy Halliday
We present estimates of intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status (SRHS) in the US using data from the PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in model...
Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
prosociality预测COVID-19大流行期间的健康行为
Pol Campos-Mercade,Armando N Meier,Florian H Schneider et al.
Pol Campos-Mercade et al.
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health...