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Quantifying the Cost of Caregiving

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The aging of the population brings with it a host of pressing economic issues. Chief among these is the rising cost of health care and the need to provide care for our elderly population.  While health care costs are high across the age distribution, they are far larger among the elderly.  And among those 65 […]

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Greg Buonaccorsi

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There’s a lot more that goes on at a Dodgers game than Clayton Kershaw striking out batters or employees serving hot dogs to spectators. Behind the scenes lies an intricate operation comprised of hard-working, innovative individuals collaborating to put on the experience millions of fans adore. Greg Buonaccorsi lives out this dream by merging his […]

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Hugo Hopenhayn in the Marginal Revolution

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Professor Hopenhayn’s paper “From Population Growth to firm Demographics” was featured in Marginal Revolution today. Alex Tabarrok described it as “The best paper I have read in a long time”. He goes on to write: “The authors do a great job at combining empirics and theory to explain an important fact about the world in […]

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Changes in between-group Inequality: Computers, Occupations, and International Trade

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By Ariel Burstein, Eduardo Morales and Jonathan Vogel We provide a unifying framework to quantify the impact of several determinants of changes in US between-group inequality. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are driven by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand, computerization, and […]

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Kathryn Brewer

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“Kathryn, you’re in!” declared the UCLA admission officer as she immediately recognized the voice on the other side of the phone. Why could an admission officer, who dealt with thousands of students each year, recognize a voice so quickly? It was because she had been receiving daily phone calls from a young Kathryn Brewer, anxious […]

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The Cost of Bad Parents

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Almost three million children in the U.S. have a parent in prison. Do these missing parents harm child development or, conversely, remove a negative influence? Imprisoning a parent may have many effects on a child. On the negative side, parental incarceration could create emotional trauma and impose financial hardship. Often childcare arrangements are disrupted and […]