Browsing Economics and Finance by Author "Gerard, F"
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Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil
Gerard, FWe measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent of the racial wage gap for both genders. Firm-specific pay ... -
Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable
Gerard, F; Rokkanen, M; Rothe, C (2020-07) -
Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from an Energy-Saving Program
Costa, F; Gerard, F (2021) -
Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance in Brazil
Gerard, FIt is widely believed that the presence of a large informal sector increases the efficiency cost of social programs in developing countries. We evaluate such claims for the case of unemployment insurance (UI) by combining ... -
Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing
Gerard, F; Naritomi, JWe study the spending profile of workers who experience both a positive transitory income shock (lump-sum severance pay) and a negative permanent income shock (layoff). Using de-identified expenditure and employment data ... -
Sanitation and property tax compliance: Analyzing the social contract in Brazil
Kresch, EP; Walker, M; Best, MC; Gerard, F; Naritomi, J (2023) -
Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries
Gerard, F; Imbert, C; Orkin, K (2020-08-29)