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MULTIPLE MEASURES OF HISTORICAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY: IOWA 1915 TO 1940 by Feigenbaum, James J.

“…Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US? Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints…”
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Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation by Feigenbaum, James, Gross, Daniel P

“…In the early 1900s, telephone operation was among the most common jobs for American women, and telephone operators were ubiquitous. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T…”
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How Legislators Respond to Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence from Chinese Import Competition by Feigenbaum, James J., Hall, Andrew B.

“…We explore the effects of localized economic shocks from trade on roll-call behavior and electoral outcomes in the US House, 1990–2010. We demonstrate that…”
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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948 by Feigenbaum, James J., Muller, Christopher, Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth

“…In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United States fell precipitously. Although this decline is…”
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Lead exposure and violent crime in the early twentieth century by Feigenbaum, James J., Muller, Christopher

“…In the second half of the nineteenth century, many American cities built water systems using lead or iron service pipes. Municipal water systems generated…”
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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities by Ager, Philipp, Feigenbaum, James J, Hansen, Casper W, Tan, Hui Ren

“…Abstract Fears of immigrants as a threat to public health have a long and sordid history. At the turn of the 20th century, when immigrants made up one-third of…”
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Precautionary Social Planning by Feigenbaum, James, Jin, Tong

“…It is a truism of neoclassical economics that a sufficiently high savings rate will be bad if it is dynamically inefficient. Here we consider a Solow model in…”
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Equivalent representations of non-exponential discounting models by Feigenbaum, James

“…I characterize the entire class of consumption rules for finite-horizon models in which consumption is proportional to lifetime wealth. Any such rule can be…”
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Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities by Eiermann, Martin, Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Feigenbaum, James J., Helgertz, Jonas, Hernandez, Elaine, Boen, Courtney E.

“…Against a backdrop of extreme racial health inequality, the 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in a striking reduction of non-White to White influenza and…”
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The Majority-Party Disadvantage: Revising Theories of Legislative Organization by Feigenbaum, James J., Fouirnaies, Alexander, Hall, Andrew B.

“…Dominant theories of legislative organization in the U.S. rest on the notion that the majority party arranges legislative matters to enhance its electoral…”
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Can mortality risk explain the consumption hump? by Feigenbaum, James

“…A lifecycle consumption profile with a hump of roughly the same relative size and peak location as empirical consumption profiles can be obtained in a general…”
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Information shocks and precautionary saving by Feigenbaum, James

“…Skinner's [1988. Risky income, life cycle consumption, and precautionary savings. Journal of Monetary Economics 22, 237–255] second-order approximation to the…”
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A leisurely reading of the life-cycle consumption data by Bullard, James, Feigenbaum, James

“…A puzzle in consumption theory is the observation of a hump in age–consumption profiles. This paper studies a general equilibrium life-cycle economy with…”
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Precautionary saving or denied dissaving by Feigenbaum, James

“…Precautionary saving in response to uninsurable income risk can in principle explain the stylized fact that aggregate saving increases with the variance of…”
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Detecting log-periodicity in a regime-switching model of stock returns by Chang, George, Feigenbaum, James

“…Log-periodic precursors have been identified before most and perhaps all financial crashes of the Twentieth Century, but efforts to statistically validate the…”
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The Vicious Cycle: Fundraising and Perceived Viability in US Presidential Primaries by Feigenbaum, James J, Shelton, Cameron A

“…Scholars of presidential primaries have long posited a dynamic positive feedback loop between fundraising and electoral success. Yet existing work on both…”
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Optimal irrational behavior by Feigenbaum, James, Caliendo, Frank N., Gahramanov, Emin

“…▶ The pecuniary externality can be exploited in an overlapping-generations model. ▶ Irrational rules of thumb can improve welfare for agents interacting in…”
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Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century by Feigenbaum, James, Gross, Daniel P.

“…AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised more than 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s, it…”
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Optimal irrational behavior in continuous time by Feigenbaum, James, Caliendo, Frank N.

“…Feigenbaum et al. (2009) showed in a two-period overlapping generations model that households can improve upon the rational, competitive equilibrium while…”
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Second-, third-, and higher-order consumption functions: a precautionary tale by Feigenbaum, James

“…No analytic solution exists to the consumption problem of an agent who faces uninsurable income shocks, though perturbation methods can be used to derive…”
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