Interventions to Bolster Benefits Take-Up: Assessing Intensity, Framing, and Targeting of Government Outreach
Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale.
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Community Targeting at Scale
Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental settings leads to nuanced allocations that reflect local concepts
Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials rele
What Data-Rich Assessments of Socioeconomic Inequality and Mobility in Rich Countries Overlook in Poor Countries
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
Labor Market Pathways to Job Quality Mobility in the Service Sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits.
Absolute income mobility obscures marginalized children’s disadvantages
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household?
Small Marketplace Premiums Pose Financial And Administrative Burdens: Evidence From Massachusetts, 2016–17
Health insurance premiums are primarily understood to pose financial barriers to coverage.
The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality
Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable errors.
Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China's Hukou System Evolution
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways institutions change also matters.
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