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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 …

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Do Expansions in Health Insurance Affect Student Loan …

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Investigating the Effect of Health Insurance in the …

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

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Do Veterans Face Disparities in Higher Education, Health, …

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 …

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Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Services Expenditures …

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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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 …

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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 …

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Measuring Racial Disparities in Higher Education and Student Debt

WEBAcross the United States, the cost of all types of higher education has been rising faster than overall inflation for more than two decades. Despite rising costs, …

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Who Is Borrowing and Lending in the Eurodollar and Selected …

WEBGara Afonso, Gonzalo Cisternas, and Will Riordan A recent Liberty Street Economics post discussed who is borrowing and lending in the federal funds (fed funds) …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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What Do Financial Conditions Tell Us about Risks to GDP Growth

WEBReal U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter of 2020 (advance estimate) was -4.8 percent at an annual rate, the worst since the global financial crisis in 2008. Most …

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The Post‑Pandemic Shift in Retirement Expectations in the U.S.

WEBWe find similar, though somewhat more attenuated, patterns for expectations about working full-time past age 67, with declines in average probabilities falling by 2.9 …

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Wealth Inequality by Age in the Post‑Pandemic Era

WEBAs of 2019, individuals under 40 years old held just 4.9 percent of total U.S. wealth despite comprising 37 percent of the adult population. Conversely, individuals …

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Crisis Chronicles: The Long Depression and the Panic of 1873

WEBIt always seemed to come down to railroads in the 1800s. Railroads fueled much of the economic growth in the United States at that time, but they required that a …

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Insurance Companies and the Growth of Corporate Loan …

WEBBetween 2009 and 2019, insurance companies’ investments in corporate bonds went from $1.143 trillion to $1.784 trillion, amounting to a 56 percent increase, …

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