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Jeffrey R. Brown
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 201
Citations - 10613
Jeffrey R. Brown is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pension & Social security. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 200 publications receiving 9846 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey R. Brown include National Bureau of Economic Research & Duke University.
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Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry
Jeffrey R. Brown,Austan Goolsbee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence on how Internet comparison shopping sites affected the prices of life insurance in the 1990s, and suggest that the growth of the Internet has reduced term life prices by 8-15 percent.
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New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new information on the expected present discounted value of payouts on individual life annuities, and find that the expected discount has increased over the last decade relative to the initial cost of the annuity.
Book
Tax Policy and the Economy
TL;DR: The Tax Policy and Economy series as discussed by the authors presents new research bearing on the effects of taxation on economic performance and analyzing the potential effects of potential tax reforms, as well as new research results are presented in a timely and accessible fashion.
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Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation
TL;DR: This article established a causal relation between an individual's decision of whether to own stocks and average stock market participation decision of the individual's community, and showed that the results are stronger in more sociable communities.
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Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation
TL;DR: This paper established a causal relation between an individual's decision whether to own stocks and average stock market participation of the individual's community and showed that the results are stronger in more sociable communities.