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Working Papers | NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research
WEBThe NBER distributes more than 1,200 Working Papers each year. Papers issued more than 18 months ago are open access. More recent papers are available without charge to affiliates of subscribing academic institutions, employees of NBER Corporate Associates, government employees in the US, journalists, and residents of low-income countries.
Business Cycle Dating | NBER
WEBThe NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee maintains a chronology of US business cycles. The chronology identifies the dates of peaks and troughs that frame economic recessions and expansions. A recession is the period between a peak of economic activity and its subsequent trough, or lowest point. Between trough and peak, the economy is in …
US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions | NBER
WEBMar 14, 2023 · Contractions (recessions) start at the peak of a business cycle and end at the trough. Source NBER. Downloadable Excel File of Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions and .PDF version. JSON file format. FAQs and additional information on how the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee identifies turning points.
WEBexperienced an average decrease of 11.5 hours of work per week and a 21% decrease in weekly earnings, arnings for 52% of the sample, which again re ects s. variation in the e ects of COVID-19 across students. In terms of labor market expectations, on average, students foresee a 13 percentage points decrease in.
How the US-China Trade War Affected the Rest of the World
WEBU pendin g a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019. These tariff increases reduced trade between the US and China, but little is known about how trade was affected in the rest of the world. In The US-China Trade War and Global …
Unpacking the Causes of Pandemic-Era Inflation in the US
WEBThe annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 1.7 percent in February 2021 but rose to more than 5 percent in June 2021. It continued rising for another year, peaking at about 9 percent in June 2022. The rise in the inflation rate has been attributed to many factors. The US response to the COVID-19 pandemic included a ...
The Benefits of Rehabilitative Incarceration | NBER
WEBApr 6, 2020 · Figure 2. In Norway, the average time spent in prison is a little over six months, which is similar to most other Western European countries. This contrasts with average US prison time of almost three years, which is in large part the reason the United States is an outlier in its incarceration rate compared with the rest of the world [Figure 1].
Exploring 160 Years of the Black-White Wealth Gap | NBER
WEBAug 1, 2022 · T he wealth gap between White and Black Americans is nearly as large today as it was in the 1950s.. In Wealth of Two Nations: The US Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020 (NBER Working Paper 30101), Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick construct a time series of the ratio of White-to-Black per capita wealth …
National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)
WEBThe National Provider Indentifier (NPI) has been the standard identifier for all HIPAA-covered entities (health care providers) since May 23, 2007. Small health plans were required to obtain and use an NPI by May 23, 2008. These files contain all of the FOIA-disclosable data for active and deactivated providers in NPPES.