Three Essays on Public Economics and Policy

Motivated by our results in Section 1.4.1 documenting the general importance of confidence levels in deter- mining baseline savings behavior, we are especially interested in

We argue that the correlation of employment status from mothers to children captures the persistence of the labor supply decision at the extensive margin, and hence is a good

Figure 6B2 Posterior means of the change of the policy rate responses to a one percentage point increase in output growth at five specific time points

I use counterfactual conditional forecasts to find that a reduction in asset holdings down to a level where the federal funds market is active again will reducereal GDP growth by

Using the type of school that students attended in 2011 as an instrument for school absenteeism, I show that school absenteeism has negative e ff ects on secondary school

We also examine the role price elasticity of demand may play in adolescent usage, how the perception of marijuana may change, and possible spillover from the recreational market...

We focus on five government agencies that have actively participated in mortgage asset markets: the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA, or Fannie Mae), Federal Home

We contribute new evidence to the debate by studying how payday credit access affects bank overdrafts (such as returned checks), bankruptcy, and household complaints against