By Charles Weber. Harvard University. --- Are immigrants in the United States more likely to be enrolled in welfare programs than natives and how has this comparative usage changed over time? To address this question...
Tag: welfare
Estimating the Compensation Differential for Paid Sick Leave Benefits
By Shawn Du. Princeton University. --- In this paper, we seek to estimate the wage compensation differential for paid sick leave in the United States using national-level data from the 1996-2010 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey...
Which Political System Maximizes Utility – a Democracy or an Autocracy?
By Ganesh R. Kumaraguru. Stanford University. --- There is a growing debate in the 21st century as to whether democracies outperform certain autocracies in increasing a citizen’s utility.
The Economics of Degree Inflation
By Justin Moore. Stanford University. --- As the percentage of the population that has attained a bachelor’s degree increases, the value of a college degree continues to decline - a phenomenon known as degree inflation. Though degree inflation motivates more young people to attend college to compete in the job market...
The Veil of Communism: An Analysis of Lifespan, GDP per Capita, Human Capital, and Agricultural Productivity in Eastern Europe
By Matei Dăian. Stanford University. --- There is a clear economic difference between the more economically-developed Western Europe and their poorer counterparts in Eastern Europe...