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Deadly Debt Crises: COVID-19 in Emerging Markets Cristina Arellano | Assistant Director, Policy and Monetary Advisor Yan Bai | University of Rochester and NBER Gabriel Mihalache | Stony Brook University
April 2, 2021
Working Papers
Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps
Job Boerma | University of Wisconsin-Madison Loukas Karabarbounis | Consultant
February 19, 2021
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Staff Reports
Star Wars at Central Banks
Adam Gorajek | Reserve Bank of Australia Joel Bank | Reserve Bank of Australia Andrew Staib | University of New South Wales Benjamin A. Malin | Senior Research Economist Hamish Fitchett | Reserve Bank of New Zealand
February 11, 2021
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Behavior and the Transmission of COVID-19
Andrew Atkeson | Consultant Karen A. Kopecky | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Tao Zha | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Emory University, and NBER
February 4, 2021
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The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Refugees in Denmark
Fabian Eckert | University of California, San Diego Mads Hejlesen | Aarhus University Conor Walsh | Princeton University
November 13, 2020
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Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth
Fabian Eckert | University of California, San Diego Sharat Ganapati | Georgetown University Conor Walsh | Princeton University
November 13, 2020
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Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests
Andrew Atkeson | Consultant Michael Droste | Harvard University Michael J. Mina | Harvard University James H. Stock | Harvard University
November 9, 2020
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Why Is Mommy So Stressed? Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers
Misty Heggeness | U.S. Census Bureau
October 26, 2020
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Family and Government Insurance: Wage, Earnings, and Income Risks in the Netherlands and the U.S.
Mariacristina De Nardi | Consultant, Institute Giulio Fella | Queen Mary University of London, CEPR, CFM, and IFS Marike Knoef | Leiden University and Netspar Gonzalo Paz-Pardo | European Central Bank Raun Van Ooijen | University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, and Netspar
October 26, 2020
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Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old Age and How Should the Government Insure it?
Richard Blundell | University College London, IFS, and CEPR Margherita Borella | Università di Torino and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto Jeanne Commault | Sciences Po Mariacristina De Nardi | Consultant, Institute
October 23, 2020
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Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?
Margherita Borella | Università di Torino and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto Mariacristina De Nardi | Consultant, Institute Fang Yang | Louisiana State University
October 23, 2020
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How Should Tax Progressivity Respond to Rising Income Inequality?
Jonathan Heathcote | Monetary Advisor Kjetil Storesletten | University of Oslo and CEPR Giovanni L. Violante | Princeton University, CEBI, CEPR, IFS, IZA, and NBER
October 19, 2020
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Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences
Vanessa Alviarez | UBC Sauder School of Business and IADB Javier Cravino | Visiting Scholar, Institute Natalia Ramondo | Boston University and NBER
October 13, 2020
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Is There a Stable Relationship between Unemployment and Future Inflation?
Terry J. Fitzgerald | Vice President & Assistant Director, Economic Analysis Callum Jones | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Mariano Kulish | University of Sydney Juan Pablo Nicolini | Senior Research Economist and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
October 7, 2020
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Asset Pricing with Endogenously Uninsurable Tail Risk
Hengjie Ai | University of Minnesota Anmol Bhandari | Visiting Scholar
October 5, 2020
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Reservation Benefits: Assessing Job Acceptance Impacts of Increased UI Payments
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
October 2, 2020
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