Leslie Mcgranahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Mcgranahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgranahan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRANAHAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences
We introduce this volume, which investigates a range of topics about poverty, including its measurement, policies intended to alleviate it, and the role of the economy in the likelihood of being in poverty. The volume was conceived as a tribute to Rebecca Blank, who was a leader in scholarship and policy translation and served at the highest levels in government and academia. The final section of the volume explores topics of special interest to …
The widow’s offering: Inheritance, family structure, and the charitable gifts of women
Access to Education
Educational inequalities start early in life, and are magnified throughout childhood. Children aged three and four from poorer backgrounds spend less time in education than those from higher income families, though research evidence indicates that these children stand to gain the most from high quality pre-school learning. During compulsory schooling, educational inequalities become more pronounced. Schools with the highest concentration of poor …
Charity and the Bequest Motive: Evidence from Seventeenth‐Century Wills
This paper researches motivations for charitable bequests by looking at gifts to the poor in wills written in Suffolk, England, in the 1620s and 1630s. The findings that wealthier and more religious individuals and those with fewer children give more to the poor support an altruistic model of testator utility. However, the result that individuals who give to more people outside of their immediate families are more likely to give to the poor contr…
Reexamining the Filibuster and Proposal Powers in the Senate
Reexamining the Filibuster and Proposal Powers in the Senate
The widow’s offering: Inheritance, family structure, and the charitable gifts of women
Charity and the Bequest Motive: Evidence from Seventeenth‐Century Wills
This paper researches motivations for charitable bequests by looking at gifts to the poor in wills written in Suffolk, England, in the 1620s and 1630s. The findings that wealthier and more religious individuals and those with fewer children give more to the poor support an altruistic model of testator utility. However, the result that individuals who give to more people outside of their immediate families are more likely to give to the poor contr…
Charity and the Bequest Motive: Evidence from Seventeenth‐Century Wills
This paper researches motivations for charitable bequests by looking at gifts to the poor in wills written in Suffolk, England, in the 1620s and 1630s. The findings that wealthier and more religious individuals and those with fewer children give more to the poor support an altruistic model of testator utility. However, the result that individuals who give to more people outside of their immediate families are more likely to give to the poor contr…
Reexamining the Filibuster and Proposal Powers in the Senate
Access to Education
Educational inequalities start early in life, and are magnified throughout childhood. Children aged three and four from poorer backgrounds spend less time in education than those from higher income families, though research evidence indicates that these children stand to gain the most from high quality pre-school learning. During compulsory schooling, educational inequalities become more pronounced. Schools with the highest concentration of poor …
The widow’s offering: Inheritance, family structure, and the charitable gifts of women
Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences
We introduce this volume, which investigates a range of topics about poverty, including its measurement, policies intended to alleviate it, and the role of the economy in the likelihood of being in poverty. The volume was conceived as a tribute to Rebecca Blank, who was a leader in scholarship and policy translation and served at the highest levels in government and academia. The final section of the volume explores topics of special interest to …
Economics (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Bequest (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Altruism (biology (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)