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Tag Archives: Government Spending
Are Behavioral Responses to Welfare Programs Bigger than We Think?
Pat Kline and Melissa Tartari have an innovative working paper that is a bit technical, but quite interesting. They formally identify the magnitude of intensive and extensive margin adjustments to the a welfare program called Jobs First. Here’s the Abstract: We study the … Continue reading
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Tagged Distortions, Government Spending, Labor Markets, Melissa Tartari, Pat Kline, Welfare Reform
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Debt to GDP & Future Economic Growth
There has been a lot of discussion today on Reinhart and Rogoff’s work on Debt to GDP & future economic growth (see Mike Konczal, Krugman, CEPR, Brad Plumer, and the original critique from Herden, Ash, Pollin), so I wanted to highlight some … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Brad Plumer, CEPR, debt, Government Spending, Laura Tyson, Mike Konczol, Paul Krugman, Reinhart and Rogoff
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Larry Summers Reviews the History of Austerity
Summers reviews Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth here. Photo from Financial Times
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Tagged austerity, Government Spending, larry summers, Mark Blyth
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Austerity and the Greek Depression
The NY Times has a nice feature that compares the Greek economy from 2007-2012 to that of the US from 1929-1934. Besides the disturbing similarity, the most notable feature of this figure is how different the government spending response has been. … Continue reading
If Austerity is Working, What Does Failure Look Like?
From Paul Krugman
Boosting Growth: The Spending and Debt Responses to Minimum Wage Hikes
Aaronson, Daniel, Sumit Agarwal, and Eric French have a recent AER paper on the consumption patterns of households with minimum wage recipients following minimum wage increases. Immediately following a minimum wage hike, household income rises on average by about $250 per … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Aaronson, Eric French, Government Spending, inequality, Minimum Wage, MPC, Spending, Sumit Agarwal, Tax Cuts for Whom
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Labs of Democracy & Today’s Fiscal Policy Debates
Here’s my latest Economix column on the labs of democracy & today’s fiscal policy debates on uncertainty, spending, and spending vs taxes: Many of the fiercest disagreements about fiscal policy today stem from disagreements about the causes of the slow … Continue reading
The Types of Things that Congress Should be Considering
From the Hamilton Project (and recently highlighted by Dylan Matthews): An Enduring Social Safety Net Transitioning to Bundled Payments in Medicare Reforming Federal Support for Risky Development Restructuring Cost Sharing and Supplemental Insurance for Medicare An Evidence-Based Path to Disability Insurance … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Dylan Matthews, Government Spending, Hamilton Project, Sequester, Tax Reform
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Shrinking Revenue Offers
Jared Bernstein has a nice, but depressing chart on various revenue offers between Obama and Boehner.
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Tagged Budget, Fiscal Cliff, Government Spending, Obama, Republicans, Revenues, Sequester, Taxes
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