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Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls (joint with Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d’Astous, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina and Barry Scholnick)
Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
We estimate the causal effects of a financial windfall on consumption, savings, and wage earnings using linked administrative data on a...
Easy to Collect, Costly to Bear: Mobile Money Taxation and Network Spillovers in Tanzania
Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper provides evidence that a tax on mobile money transactions shrinks its base by an order of magnitude more than taxes on income or...
Housing First or Treatment First? Evidence from the VA's Homelessness Programs
Sydney Constantini, University of California, Berkeley
Debates in homelessness policy often pit Housing First programs, in which subsidized housing is offered unconditionally and immediately,...
