RELAB WORKING PAPER | Unpaid eldercare provided by friends and family comes with costs to caregivers, including the limitations eldercare responsibilities may place on labor force participation and work hours.

WORKING PAPER | A report by SCEPA researcher Bridget Fisher and co-author Flávia Leite analyzes New York State’s proposal to redevelop Penn Station using a version of value capture financing.

WORKING PAPER | This paper assesses the effects of dominant currency shocks (strong US dollar) on emerging markets by studying exchange market pressure (EMP) or foreign exchange (FX) liquidity, GDP growth, external debt, and inflation.

WORKING PAPER | New York City's Hudson Yards project includes heavily discounted property taxes for Hudson Yards developers.

WORKING PAPER | Lack of meaningful action to mitigate climate change will disproportionally impact the vulnerable, including children who are being sent into the labor force to make ends meet for poor households hit by climate shocks.

WORKING PAPER | Since the early 1990s, disparities in Social Security claim ages has grown, with high earners increasingly likely to delay claiming. A SCEPA working paper explores the returns and effects of claiming Social Security earlier versus delaying claiming these benefits.

WORKING PAPER | Time spent unemployed can have a profound impact on the quality of a worker's life, future, and family. SCEPA's latest working paper focuses on gender and racial disparities in the time it takes to find work and how these periods are impacted by unemployment insurance.

WORKING PAPER | The popular EITC program is credited with encouraging employment and reducing poverty. But a SCEPA working paper suggests it may also reduce wages for low-education workers, including older workers who do not receive EITC benefits at the same rate as younger workers.

WORKING PAPER | TIF’s self-financing rhetoric can be used to shift risk onto taxpayers.

WORKING PAPER | While tax increment financing (TIF) is a common tool for municipalities to fund economic development, it is responsive to the legal, political, and economic environments of the locality in which it is implemented. 

WORKING PAPER | Workers at all earnings levels would benefit from expanding Social Security. SCEPA proposes defaulting workers into “Catch-Up” contributions, where— starting at age 50— they would contribute an additional 3.1% of their salary.

WORKING PAPER | SCEPA economists published a World Bank working paper arguing that both the carbon tax and green bonds are needed to mitigate climate change while sharing the cost across generations.

PRESENTATION | Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, gave a presentation in Sorbonne, Paris, as part of the Financial Regulation Lab (LabEx ReFi).  

WORKING PAPER | Conventional economic analysis depicts the jobs market as finite, assuming immigration lowers wages and job prospects for American workers.

WORKING PAPER | This paper explores how climate damage affects the long-run evolution of the economy.

WORKING PAPER | How does effective demand, productivity growth, income, and wealth distributions influence and constrain the economy? 

WORKING PAPER | This working paper sheds light on the various theories which attempt to explain the relationship between economic growth and climate change.

WORKING PAPER | Do policies to keep older people working cause wage stagnation?

WORKING PAPER | This working paper argues that the real relative unit labor cost is the main force that explains the long-run behavior of the real exchange rate.

WORKING PAPER | This paper proposes an entropy-constrained model of induced technical change (ITC) and estimates the innovation possibilities frontier (IPF) of the OECD countries.