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Liverpool-based store chain TJ Hughes which employs 4,000 people announces it intends to appoint an administrator.
View ArticleCommittee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes -- by John...
The literature on congressional committees has largely overlooked the impact of jurisdictional fights on policy proposals and outcomes. This paper develops a theory of how legislators balance the...
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Heavier vehicles are safer for their own occupants but more hazardous for the occupants of other vehicles. In this paper we estimate the increased probability of fatalities from being hit by a heavier...
View ArticleDoes Financial Constraint Affect Shareholder Taxes and the Cost of Equity...
We show that firms with the least elastic demand for equity capital should benefit the most from reductions in shareholder taxes. Consistent with this prediction, we find that, following 1997 and 2003...
View ArticleThe Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United...
View ArticleThe Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks -- by Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Low-skill workers are comparatively immobile: when labor demand slumps in a city, low-skill workers are disproportionately likely to remain to face declining wages and employment. This paper estimates...
View ArticleHow Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the...
The sharpest increase in U.S. home ownership over the last century occurred between 1940 and 1960, associated primarily with a decrease in the age at first ownership. To shed light on the contribution...
View ArticleResidential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor -- by...
We consider the influence of household-based production on human capital investment. In data from rural Burkina Faso, we document a positive correlation between the presence of girls and enrollment...
View ArticleA "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle...
Researchers considering levels and trends in the resources available to the middle class traditionally measure the pre-tax cash income of either tax units or households. In this paper, we demonstrate...
View ArticleA Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception -- by Andrew Caplin, Daniel Martin
We introduce a rational choice theory that allows for many forms of imperfect perception, including failures of memory, selective attention, and adherence to simplifying rules of thumb. Despite its...
View ArticleSide Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in...
The extent of pharmaceutical advertising and promotion can be characterized by a balancing act between profitable demand expansions and potentially unfavorable subsequent regulatory actions. However,...
View ArticleCognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test...
Assessing the impact of lead exposure is difficult if individuals select on the basis of their characteristics into environments with different exposure levels. We address this issue with data from...
View ArticleSmoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era -- by Sara...
Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to have significant adverse health effects for new born babies. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of low birth weight of infants who in turn, need more...
View ArticleEstimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using...
We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA)....
View ArticleHuman Capital and Regional Development -- by Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La...
We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world's surface and 96 percent of...
View ArticleEarly Non-marital Childbearing and the "Culture of Despair" -- by...
This paper borrows from the tradition of other social sciences in considering the impact that "culture" (broadly defined as the economic and social environment in which the poor live) plays in...
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