作者：Fryer, Roland G.
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On nonlethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than 50 percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces, but cannot fully explain, these disparities. On the most extreme use of force-officer-involved shootings-we find no racial differences either in the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into accou...
作者：Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; Tambalotti, Andrea
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; Northwestern University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National Bureau of Economic Research; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：An increase in credit supply driven by looser lending constraints in the mortgage market is the key force behind four empirical features of the housing boom before the Great Recession: the unprecedented rise in home prices, the surge in household debt, the stability of debt relative to house values, and the fall in mortgage rates. These facts are more difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing boom only to looser borrowing constraints associated with lower collate...
作者：Zidar, Owen
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate economic activity. I construct a measure of who received (or paid for) tax changes in the postwar period using tax return data from NBER's TAXSIM. Variation in the income distribution across US states and federal tax changes generate variation in regional tax shocks that I exploit to test for heterogeneous effects. I find that the positive relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven b...
