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Understanding the Racial and Income Gap in Covid-19: …

WEBRuchi Avtar, Rajashri Chakrabarti, and Maxim Pinkovskiy. Our previous work documents that low-income and majority-minority areas were considerably more affected by COVID …

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An Update on the Health of the U.S. Consumer

WEBAn Update on the Health of the U.S. Consumer. Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Daniel Mangrum, Jonathan McCarthy, Davide Melcangi, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van …

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Does U.S. Health Inequality Reflect Income Inequality—or …

WEBHealth is an integral part of well-being. The United Nations Human Development Index uses life expectancy (together with GDP per capita and literacy) as one of three key …

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Medicare and Financial Health across the United States

WEBConsumer financial strain varies enormously across the United States. One pernicious source of financial strain is debt in collections—debt that is more than 120 days past due …

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Is Health Insurance Good for Your Financial Health

WEBOur findings are consistent with prior research that has provided evidence that health insurance is good for individual finances (for example, Finkelstein et al., which examines …

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Health Inequality

WEBHealth is a Key Component of Inequality. In terms of welfare (under standard assumptions on the welfare function), the elimination of the left tail of mortality would have a beneficial …

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Do Veterans Face Disparities in Higher Education, Health, and …

WEBVeterans are an understudied group that forms an important part of the fabric of American society and that constitutes a significant segment of the population. In the first post of …

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Do Expansions in Health Insurance Affect Student Loan Outcomes

WEBThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is arguably the biggest policy intervention in health insurance in the United States since the passage of Medicaid and …

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Investigating the Effect of Health Insurance in the COVID‑19 …

WEBDoes health insurance improve health? This question, while apparently a tautology, has been the subject of considerable economic debate. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it …

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The Disproportionate Effects of COVID‑19 on Households with …

WEBOlivier Armantier, Gizem Koşar, Rachel Pomerantz, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. A growing body of evidence points to large negative economic and health impacts of the COVID …

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The Affordable Care Act and For‑Profit Colleges

WEBThe Affordable Care Act revolutionized the health insurance landscape faced by individuals under 65 by creating functional markets for individual insurance and by dramatically …

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Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Services Expenditures during …

WEBThe coronavirus pandemic and the various measures to address it have led to unprecedented convulsions to the U.S. and global economies. In this post, I examine …

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How COVID‑19 Affected First‑Time Homebuyers

WEBEfforts in the spring of 2020 to contain the spread of COVID-19 resulted in a sharp contraction in U.S. economic growth and an unprecedented, rapid rise in unemployment. …

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Credit, Income, and Inequality

WEBAccess to credit plays a central role in shaping economic opportunities of households and businesses. Access to credit also plays a crucial role in helping an economy …

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Mortgage Rate Lock‑In and Homeowners’ Moving Plans

WEBEstimating the Lock-In Effect. To understand the extent to which the lock-in effect is suppressing household’s moving plans, we presented homeowners with a mortgage with …

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The Spillover Effects of COVID-19 on Productivity throughout the …

WEBWhile the shocks from COVID-19 were concentrated in a handful of contact-intensive industries, they had rippling effects throughout the economy, which culminated in a …

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Measuring Price Inflation and Growth in Economic Well-Being with …

WEBDanial Lashkari. How can we accurately measure changes in living standards over time in the presence of price inflation? In this post, I discuss a novel and simple methodology …

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Understanding Permanent and Temporary Income Shocks

WEBThe earnings of 200 million U.S. workers change each year for various reasons. Some of these changes are anticipated while others are more unexpected. Although many of …

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New York City Archives

WEBAt the New York Fed, our mission is to make the U.S. economy stronger and the financial system more stable for all segments of society. We do this by executing monetary …

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Many Places Still Have Not Recovered from the Pandemic Recession

WEBAt the New York Fed, our mission is to make the U.S. economy stronger and the financial system more stable for all segments of society. We do this by executing monetary …

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Long COVID Appears to Have Led to a Surge of the Disabled in the

WEBHelping Long-Haulers Remain in the Workplace. Long COVID varies in terms of its symptoms and severity, but its core symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, and …

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Fight the Pandemic, Save the Economy: Lessons from the 1918 Flu

WEBStudy which proves that non-pharmaceutical health interventions are beneficial for the economy is invalid Abstract: The study “Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public …

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