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15 p, 744.6 KB Experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and support for safety-net expansion / Salvadori, Luca (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Piolatto, Amedeo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Rees-Jones, Alex (Universitat de Pennsylvania) ; D'Attoma, John (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. SGR-Grup de Recerca Centre de Recerca en Economia de les Organitzacions)
Did individuals' experiences with the harms of the COVID-19 pandemic influence their attitudes towards safety-net programs? To assess this question, we combine rich information about county-level impacts and individual-level perceptions of the early pandemic, repeated measurements of attitudes towards safety-net expansion, and pre-pandemic measurements of related political attitudes. [...]
2022 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.002
Journal of economic behavior & organization, Vol. 200 (2022) , p. 1090-1104  
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25 p, 1.5 MB Low staffing in the maternity ward : keep calm and call the surgeon / Facchini, Gabriel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada)
This paper examines how workload affects the provision of care in a large but understudied segment of the healthcare sector - maternity wards. I use detailed patient-level administrative data on childbirth, and exploit quasi-random assignment of unscheduled patients to different staffing ratios. [...]
2022 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.03.013
Journal of economic behavior & organization, Vol. 197 (may 2022) , p. 370-394  
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38 p, 808.0 KB Fiscal policy, composition of intergenerational transfers, and income distribution / Alonso Carrera, Jaime (Universidade de Vigo) ; Caballé, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Raurich, Xavier (Universitat de Barcelona)
In this paper, we characterize the relationship between the initial distribution of human capital and physical inheritances among individuals and the long-run distribution of these two variables. In a model with indivisible investment in education, we analyze how the initial distribution of income determines the posterior intergenerational mobility in human capital and the evolution of intragenerational income inequality. [...]
2012 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.07.013
Journal of economic behavior & organization, Vol. 84 (2012) , p. 62-84  

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