Karina Doorley

TL;DR: In this article, the authors simulate the impact of Covid-19 related job losses on family incomes and the public finances and find that in the central scenario of 600,000 job losses, around 400,000 families will see their disposable income fall by more than 20 per cent in the absence of policy changes, with proportionately larger losses for those in higher income families.

TL;DR: This paper found that the RMI reduces the participation of uneducated single men by 7-10% at age 25, and conducted a regression discontinuity analysis using French Census data to study how young (childless) singles react to financial incentives.

TL;DR: This article found that differences in characteristics (such as age, family composition, labor market attributes, etc.) between beautiful and plain people contribute to the beauty premium identified using traditional regression models.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of the economic crisis and the policy reaction on inequality and relative poverty in four European countries: France, Germany, Ireland and the UK, and found that the first stage of the Great Recession contributed to stabilising or even decreasing inequality and poverty in UK, France and Ireland.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes.