The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits: New Evidence and...
The Great Recession has renewed interest in Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and measurement of UI. In this...
View ArticleThe Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure -- by...
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time...
View ArticleHealthy-Time Measures of Health Outcomes and Healthcare Quality -- by...
The purposes of this paper are to describe some conceptual and empirical foundations of "healthy-time" measures of health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical...
View ArticleThe Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions -- by...
We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in...
View ArticleAfrica's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend -- by David E. Bloom,...
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will...
View ArticleMatch or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and...
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori...
View ArticleDo Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores? -- by Anna...
We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005....
View ArticleThe Economic Consequences of the 1953 London Debt Agreement -- by Gregori...
In 1953 the Western Allied powers implemented a radical debt-relief plan that would, in due course, eliminate half of West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment...
View ArticleSocial Capital, Trust and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth -- by Kirk...
We combine theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. This is used to argue, given what we have learned in the...
View ArticleThe Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth -- by Canyon Bosler, Mary C. Daly,...
Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong--defying nearly all earlier projections--and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture....
View ArticleSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: Medical Marijuana Laws and Tobacco Use -- by Anna...
This study comprehensively examines whether medical marijuana laws (MMLs) have affected the trajectory of a decades-long decline in adult tobacco use in the United States. Using data from three large...
View ArticleState Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI): Investor Confidence Drops...
State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for August 2016.read more...
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Toronto's Equity Markets Are The Best Performing In The World So Far In 2016
Toronto's equity markets are the best performing in the world, so far in 2016. As at the end of July the S&P/TSX Composite Index was up 12%, far outstripping S&P 500, the FTSE 100, the...
View ArticleSEC: $22 Million Whistleblower Award For Company Insider Who Helped Uncover...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the award of more than $22 million to a whistleblower whose detailed tip and extensive assistance helped the agency halt a well-hidden fraud at...
View ArticleCFTC Extends Comment Period on Proposed Amendments to Regulation 4.22...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the comment period on its proposed amendments to Regulation 4.22, which concerns the Annual Report that each commodity pool operator...
View ArticleCFTC Extends Comment Period On Proposed Amendments To Regulation 4.22...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the comment period on its proposed amendments to Regulation 4.22, which concerns the Annual Report that each commodity pool operator...
View ArticleSEC Whistleblower Program Surpasses $100 Million In Awards
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s awards to whistleblowers have surpassed the $100 million mark with the program’s second-largest award of more than $22 million announced earlier today.read more...
View ArticleU.S. Treasury Releases Joint Fact Sheet On Anti-Money Laundering And...
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a Joint Fact Sheet on Foreign Correspondent Banking developed with the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National...
View ArticleNew Thomson Reuters Mobile App Uses Crowdsourcing To Deliver Commodities Insight
A mobile crowdsourcing app that allows farmers to share crop data in exchange for market insight is launched today by Thomson Reuters.read more...
View ArticleReuters Collaborates With Graphiq To Deliver Suite Of Interactive Data...
Today Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news provider, announced a collaboration with semantic technology company Graphiq to provide publishers access to an increased number of...
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