DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES: GOVERNMENT SPENDING MULTIPLIERS IN HARD TIMES [0.03%]
非常时期需行非常之举：经济低迷时期的政府支出乘数效应
Sokbae Lee,Yuan Liao,Myung Hwan Seo et al.
Sokbae Lee et al.
We investigate state-dependent effects of fiscal multipliers and allow for endogenous sample splitting to determine whether the U.S. economy is in a slack state. When the endogenized slack state is estimated as the period of the unemploymen...
Johanna Catherine Maclean,Michael F Pesko,Steven C Hill
Johanna Catherine Maclean
We study the effect of public insurance on smoking cessation medication prescriptions and financing. We leverage variation in insurance coverage generated by recent Affordable Care Act expansions to Medicaid. We estimate differences-in-diff...
Integrated Household Surveys: An Assessment of U.S. Methods and an Innovation [0.03%]
一体化住户调查：对美国方法的评估及创新举措
Krislert Samphantharak,Scott Schuh,Robert M Townsend
Krislert Samphantharak
We present a vision for improving household financial surveys by integrating responses from questionnaires more completely with financial statements and combining them with payments data from diaries. Integrated household financial accounts...
Joachim Marti,John Buckell,Johanna Catherine Maclean et al.
Joachim Marti et al.
A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes but the optimal regulation of these controversial products remains an open question. We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smoker...
Within-Mother Estimates of the Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes in New York City [0.03%]
纽约市营养补充援助计划对新生儿结局影响的_within-mother_估计值研究
Janet Currie,Ishita Rajani
Janet Currie
There is a large literature suggesting that "WIC works" to improve birth outcomes. However, methodological limitations related to selection into the WIC program have left room for doubt about this conclusion. This paper uses birth records f...
POLICY VARIATION, LABOR SUPPLY ELASTICITIES, AND A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF RETIREMENT [0.03%]
基于退休的结构模型与劳动力供给弹性、政策差异
Day Manoli,Kathleen J Mullen,Mathis Wagner
Day Manoli
This paper exploits a combination of policy variation from multiple pension reforms in Austria and administrative data from the Austrian Social Security Database. Using the policy changes for identification, we estimate social security weal...
Media and human capital development: Can video game playing make you smarter? [0.03%]
媒体与人力资本发展：玩电子游戏会让你更聪明吗？
Agne Suziedelyte
Agne Suziedelyte
According to the literature, video game playing can improve such cognitive skills as problem solving, abstract reasoning, and spatial logic. I test this hypothesis using The Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics...
Hope Corman,Dhaval M Dave,Nancy E Reichman et al.
Hope Corman et al.
Exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time and comparing relevant population subgroups within an econometric difference-in-differences framework, we estimate the effects of welfare reform on adult women's illicit drug ...
Hugo M Mialon
Hugo M Mialon
In this paper, we develop a signaling model of rational lovemaking. In the act of lovemaking, a man and a woman send each other possibly deceptive signals about their true state of ecstasy. For example, if one of the partners is not in ecst...
Gender and the influence of peer alcohol consumption on adolescent sexual activity [0.03%]
性别与同伴饮酒对青少年性行为的影响
Glen R Waddell
Glen R Waddell
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship ...