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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:44:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Parental employment at the onset of the pandemic: Effects of lockdowns and government policies</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298595</link>
      <description>Title: Parental employment at the onset of the pandemic: Effects of lockdowns and government policies
Authors: Dasgupta, Kabir; Kirkpatrick, Linda; Plum, Alexander
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts on women's employment, especially for mothers with school-age and younger children. However, the impacts likely varied depending on the type of policy response adopted by various governments. New Zealand presents a unique policy setting in which one of the strictest lockdown restrictions was combined with a generous wage subsidy scheme to secure employment. We utilize tax records to compare employment patterns of parents from the pandemic period (treatment group) to similar parents from a recent pre-pandemic period (control group). For mothers whose youngest child is aged between one and 12, we find a 1-2-percentage point decline in the likelihood of being employed in the first six months of the pandemic; for fathers, we hardly see any significant changes in employment. Additionally, the decline in mothers' employment rates is mainly driven by those not employed in the month before the lockdown. We also find similar employment patterns for future parents who had no children during the evaluation period. This indicates that the adverse labour market impacts are not uniquely experienced by mothers, but by women in general.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Unanimity under ambiguity</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298592</link>
      <description>Title: Unanimity under ambiguity
Authors: Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Pan, Addison; Ryan, Matthew Joseph
Abstract: This paper considers a binary decision to be made by a committee - canonically, a jury - through a voting procedure. Each juror must vote on whether a defendant is guilty or not guilty. The voting rule aggregates the votes to determine whether the defendant is convicted or acquitted. We focus on the unanimity rule (convict if and only if all vote guilty), and we consider jurors who share ambiguous prior beliefs as in Ellis (2016). Our contribution is twofold. First, we identify all symmetric equilibria of these voting games. Second, we show that ambiguity may drastically undermine McLennan's (1998) results on decision quality: unlike in the absence of ambiguity, the ex ante optimal symmetric strategy profile need not be an equilibrium; indeed, there are games for which it is possible to reduce both types of error starting from any (non-trivial) equilibrium.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sexual orientation and financial well-being in the United States</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299357</link>
      <description>Title: Sexual orientation and financial well-being in the United States
Authors: Carpenter, Christopher; Dasgupta, Kabir; Merchant, Zofsha; Plum, Alexander
Abstract: We study the relationship between financial well-being and sexual orientation in the United States using Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) data for 2019-2022. We document that people who are lesbian, gay, and bisexual (or LGB) have significantly more difficulty managing financially than similarly situated heterosexual individuals-and this pre-dated the COVID-19 pandemic. Differences are found across a broad array of current and future financial well-being outcomes, including retirement savings, rainy-day funds, credit card and schooling debts, and the use of alternative financial services such as payday loans. Differences in partnership, financial assistance from parents, financial knowledge, and risk preferences cannot explain these differences. Instead, we document that some social vulnerabilities such as exposure to discriminatory behavior and violence are differentially experienced by LGB people, which may play a role. Our results demonstrate that people who are lesbian, gay, and bisexual experience significantly more financial insecurity than previously understood.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cycle conditions for "Luce rationality"</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298596</link>
      <description>Title: Cycle conditions for "Luce rationality"
Authors: Rodrigues Neto, José Alvaro; Ryan, Matthew Joseph; Taylor, James
Abstract: We extend and refine conditions for 'Luce rationality' (i.e., the existence of a Luce - or logit - model) in the context of stochastic choice. When choice probabilities satisfy positivity, we show that the cyclical independence (CI) condition of Ahumada and Ülkü (2018) and Echenique and Saito (2019) is necessary and sufficient for Luce rationality, even if choice is only observed for a restricted set of menus. We then adapt results from the cycles approach (Rodrigues-Neto, 2009) to the common prior problem (Harsanyi, 1967-1968) to refine the CI condition, by reducing the number of cycle equations that need to be checked. A general algorithm is provided to identify a minimal sufficient set of equations (depending on the collection of menus for which choice is observed). Three cases are discussed in detail: (i) when choice is only observed from binary menus, (ii) when all menus contain a common default; and (iii) when all menus contain an element from a common binary default set. Investigation of case (i) leads to a refinement of the famous product rule.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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