Policy Uncertainty in Japan
Policy uncertainty is always a consideration for households and firms, even in relatively stable periods....
Topics:
Financial Markets, Monetary Policy
Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees and Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction
However, for many young people in developing economies who live in poverty, that trade-off is...
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages, Healthcare, K-12 Education
What Happened to US Business Dynamism?
On the other hand, imagine those two running neck-and-neck to the finish line. In that...
Topics:
Technology & Innovation
Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods: Paying Uber with Cash
However, for millions of other people who do not have credit cards or who are...
Topics:
Technology & Innovation
Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
The benefits of disability payments are easy to intuit when thinking hypothetically about the US...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
However, the process is much more complicated. The forms are long and complex, including detailed medical...
The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States
These are some of the questions that motivated recent research by Bradley Setzler, UChicago postdoctoral...
Topics:
Employment & Wages
Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Downtowns have always been the center of commercial and cultural life for cities, but relatively...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty