Wealth Inequality and Its Discontents
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28 January 2020
The Leverage Factor: Credit Cycles and Asset Returns
Credit booms, when borrowers have easy access to credit at low cost, tend to be followed by unusually low returns to equities, both in absolute terms and relative to bonds, Josh Davis and Alan M. Taylor find.
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27 January 2020
U.S. Housing Market Magnified the 'China Shock'
The ‘China shock’ reduced employment in a number of U.S. industries, but follow-on declines in house prices in hard-hit areas created further job losses, possibly doubling the employment decline, according to Yuan Xu, Hong Ma, and Robert C. Feenstra.
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24 January 2020
Racial Disparities in Time Spent Waiting to Vote
Relative to residents of white neighborhoods, residents of black neighborhoods waited 29 percent longer to vote in 2016 and were 74 percent more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place, M. Keith Chen, Kareem Haggag, Devin G. Pope, and Ryne Rohla find.
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Veterans Posted to Overseas Combat Zones
More Likely to Abuse Opioids than Those Not Deployed
Veterans exposed to combat are 7 percentage points more likely to abuse prescription painkillers than veterans who were not deployed to a combat zone, according to research featured in the current edition of The NBER Digest. Also featured in this issue of the free, monthly Digest are studies of the benefits to young firms of winning the
H-1B visa lottery, the effect of
China's retaliatory tariffs on US consumption, and the relationship between
credit booms and equity performance, and the impact of a estate taxes on billionaires’ residency, and the decline in IPOs in the United States.
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Why Hasn't Investment Come Back Strongly
in the Years Since the 2007-08 Financial Crisis
Among trends of great concern in the United States are a decades-long decline in productivity growth and relatively weak investment in physical capital that has persisted since the Great Recession. Research by Janice C. Eberly of Northwestern University and the NBER shows that the rise in importance of intangible capital can help explain both trends. Moreover, she finds that intangibles may be contributing to the rise of market concentration.
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Edited by NBER Research Associates Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, the latest volume in the Innovation Policy and the Economy series explores changes in the ability of the United States to attract talented foreign workers, the role of sponsoring institutions in shaping immigration policy, the division of innovative labor between research universities and corporate labs, the effectiveness of various innovation policies in the pharmaceutical sector, effects of competition policy, uses of experimental policy design, and geographic disparities in innovation, joblessness, and technological dynamism.
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Understanding the trends in self-employment at older ages is increasingly important as more Americans work into their later years. Results of a survey on self-employment is summarized in the winter issue of the free Bulletin on Retirement and Disability. The research shows that the share of self-employed rises sharply with age and that highly educated older adults are considerably more likely to be self-employed than less-educated workers. Also featured in this issue: a summary of research on
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