Taxes
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The Student Loan Consolidation Option: An Analysis of an Exotic Financial Derivative: Working Paper 2007-05
We develop a model to estimate the consolidation option’s cost and to evaluate its sensitivity to changes in program rules, economic conditions, and borrower behavior.
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Assessing the Relationship between Economic Stability and Dynamic Employment Responses to Aggregate Shocks: Working Paper 2007-04
This paper looks at the changes in aggregate employment responses to shocks.
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Measurement Error in the SIPP: Evidence from Matched Administrative Records: Working Paper 2007-03
This paper uses data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation Panel matched to Social Security administrative records.
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Economic Flexibility in Microsimulation: An Age-Centered Regression Approach: Working Paper 2007-02
This paper describes a strategy for estimating predictive equations that has been shown to work well in microsimulation modeling.
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Occupational Employment Risk and its Consequences for Unemployment Duration and Wages: Working Paper 2007-01
There are substantial differences in unemployment durations and reemployment outcomes for workers in different occupations. This paper shows that this variation can be explained in part by differences in occupational employment risk.
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Trends in High Incomes and Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Evidence from Executive Compensation and Statistics of Income Data: Working Paper 2006-14
This paper examines income trends from 1992 to 2004 and the responsiveness of different income measures to tax changes for corporate executives and for the very highest income U.S. taxpayers.
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An Empirical Model of Factor Adjustment Dynamics: Working Paper 2006-13
This paper investigates how firms dynamically adjust their use of capital, labor, energy, and materials when there are both smooth and lumpy adjustment possibilities and interrelation among adjustments.
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Quantitative Implications of Indexed Bonds in Small Open Economies: Working Paper 2006-12
Recent studies have proposed setting up a benchmark market for indexed bonds to prevent "Sudden Stops," emerging-market crises initiated by sudden reversals of capital inflows. This paper analyzes the implications of such bonds.
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The Effect of a First Child on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Women Seeking Fertility Services: Working Paper 2006-11
Estimating the causal effect of a first child on female labor supply is complicated by the endogeneity of the fertility decision.
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Private Savings, Medicaid and Uncertain Nursing Home Expenses: Working Paper 2006-10
This paper, which extends previous research, examines how high but uncertain nursing home expenses interact with Medicaid assistance to affect the savings decisions of working-age households.