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作者：Tuttle, Cody; Wilson, Riley
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Brigham Young University
摘要：Many claimants of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) retain legal representation to help with the approval process. The Social Security Administration imposes strict rules on representative compensation. Representatives are only paid if claimants are awarded disability, and they are paid the lesser of 25 percent of the claimant's past due benefits or a pre-specified maximum fee ($7,200 since 2022). Because past due benefits are a function of the number of months claimants wait to be a...
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作者：Germeshausen, Robert; Heim, Sven; Wagner, Ulrich J.
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Mannheim
摘要：The rise of societal goals like climate change mitigation and energy security calls for rapid capacity growth in renewable electricity sources, yet citizens' support is put to a test when such technologies emit negative local externalities. We estimate the impact of wind turbine deployment on granular measures of revealed preferences for renewable electricity in product and political markets. We address potentially endogenous siting of turbines with an IV design that exploits quasi-experimenta...
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作者：Priebe, Jan; Sumarto, Sudarno
摘要：There is limited empirical evidence on whether poverty-targeted conditional cash transfers (CCTs) can be an effective tool in reducing child marriages. Employing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design that uses administrative roll-out data matched to the government's poverty census and targeting database in Indonesia, we estimate that the country's flagship CCT (PKH) reduced child marriages of girls in rural Indonesia by about 3.5 percentage points (about 40 percent). We conclude that CCTs ma...
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作者：Aucejo, Esteban M.; Wong, Kelvin
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; National Bureau of Economic Research; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This study examines the effect of scalable personalized feedback messages from professors on student performance in both synchronous and asynchronous classes, with a specific focus on first-generation students. We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving approximately 3,000 students across 39 introductory economics classes at Arizona State University. The feedback messages were tailored using information from students' initial academic performance and surveys completed at the beginnin...
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作者：Zakharov, Alexei; Chapkovski, Philipp
作者单位：Yale University; University of Bonn
摘要：Do wars change preferences for redistributive state policies? We analyze this question using a preregistered survey experiment involving N = 3920 respondents in Russia conducted during the Russo-Ukrainian war. The order of questions in the survey was manipulated to remind some respondents of the war before measuring the outcome variables. We find that among individuals who favor the war, the war reminder increases preferences for redistribution. Our two-part design allows us to investigate the...
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作者：Drescher, Katharina; Janzen, Benedikt
作者单位：University of Passau; University of Bern
摘要：We study the effects of temperature on occupational health using administrative data on Swiss occupational accidents from 1996 to 2019. Our results imply that on hot days ( T (max) >= 30( degrees) C) the number of occupational accidents increases by 7.4% and on ice days ( T (max) < 0 (degrees) C) by 6.3%, relative to mild days. We find that extreme temperatures cause an average of 2600 workplace accidents each year, costing CHF 91 million annually. We provide suggestive evidence for insufficie...
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作者：Bangum, Christine T.; Geys, Benny; Sorensen, Rune J.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Why do people vote in large elections? Theoretical arguments to resolve this paradox of voting often emphasize individuals' pro-social motivations, which make turnout decisions less sensitive to the pivot probability. Using Norwegian population-wide register data, we test this argument by leveraging population-size shocks from inter-municipal mobility and proxying pro-social motivations via individuals' charitable donations. We find that increasing electorate size widens the turnout gap betwee...
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作者：Bouakez, Hafedh; Rachedi, Omar; Santoro, Emiliano
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Universite de Montreal; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
摘要：The aggregate spending multiplier crucially depends on the sectoral origin of government purchases. To establish this result, we characterize analytically the response of aggregate output to sector-specific government spending shocks in a tractable production-network economy, showing how it maps into various characteristics of the shocked sector. The response is larger when government spending originates in sectors with a relatively small contribution to private final demand, low markup, high ...
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作者：Street, Brittany
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：Theory suggests crime should decrease as economic opportunities increase the returns to legal activities. However, the current literature shows crime increases when areas experience fracking, a source of increased local economic opportunity. This paper reconciles this puzzle by separating out existing residents and isolating local economic effects from changing composition. Specifically, I exploit within-and across-county variation in fracking activities in North Dakota using individual-level ...
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作者：Grillo, Edoardo; Nicolo, Antonio
作者单位：University of Padua; University of Manchester
摘要：Countries involved in conflicts learn about their military strength from the battlefield. We study how a third party intervenes to manipulate this learning. An attacker and a defender engage in a conflict whose outcome conveys information about the attacker's strength. A third party worries that the attacker becomes more confident about its military strength and can intervene to help the defender. This intervention is risky: if the attacker wins despite the help the defender receives, its conf...
