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作者：Pulejo, Massimo
作者单位：Roma Tre University
摘要：Exclusionary welfare policies are among the flagship proposals in the economic agenda of the far right. Yet, there is little empirical evidence as to whether-after gaining power-such parties do indeed cut welfare provisions for immigrants. Using data on more than 6 million procurement contracts within a close-election Regression Discontinuity Design, I estimate that Italian mayors supported by the far right significantly cut welfare spending for immigrants and refugees. However, using novel da...
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作者：Strang, Louis; Schaube, Sebastian
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：Frequently, one person's success comes at the expense of others. We contrast such zero-sum environments in which individuals' payoffs are interdependent to those where payoffs are independent. Ina laboratory experiment, we study whether the resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator's redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. Ina re...
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作者：Agarwal, Sumit; Qin, Yu; Sing, Tien Foo; Zhan, Changwei
作者单位：National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study exploits the Singapore Prime Minister's announcement of the areas affected by sea level rise (SLR) within the country and its adaptation strategies valued at 100 billion Singapore dollars. Utilizing transaction- level data with exact locations, we find that public housing prices dropped by 7.2% in SLR areas four years after the announcement relative to non-SLR areas. In SLR areas with adaptation, the price depreciation was mitigated to 0.6%. In the private housing sector, freehold p...
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作者：Ofek-Shanny, Yuval; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Zeltzer, Dan
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; University of Chicago; Tel Aviv University; Stanford University
摘要：We study the impact of subsidizing home-based long-term care on recipients' health and the labor supply of their working-age children. We use administrative data from Israel on the universe of welfare benefit applications linked with tax records of applicants and their adult children. To address the endogeneity of benefit recipients' health status, we instrument for benefit receipt using the leniency of randomly assigned evaluators who assess the applicant's functional status and determine ben...
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作者：Moore, Nils aus dem; Brehm, Johannes; Gruhl, Henri
作者单位：Hertie School; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：Does a carbon tax stimulate low-carbon innovation in the transport sector? We exploit an environmental tax reform in Sweden that introduced both a carbon and a value-added tax on transport fuels. Synthetic control estimates consistently find that the tax reform caused large and significant increases in low-carbon patents. We provide suggestive evidence that the carbon tax drives the effect while fuel price changes with comparable magnitude did not significantly affect low-carbon innovation. Ou...
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作者：Morelli, Salvatore; Nolan, Brian; Palomino, Juan C.; Van Kerm, Philippe
作者单位：Roma Tre University; University of Oxford; Complutense University of Madrid; University of Luxembourg
摘要：This paper uses survey data from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Great Britain and the United States to analyze how inheritances impact wealth inequality in a range of rich countries. Adopting an influence function regression approach, the paper calculates the counterfactual effects of small increases in the share of recipients of different-sized wealth transfers in each country. Results suggest that while a marginal increase in inheritance recipients generally contracts wealth inequality measu...
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作者：Fahle, Sean
作者单位：University Hohenheim; University Hohenheim
摘要：This paper studies the bequests that arise in married couples after the death of the first spouse. It provides the first systematic examination of these bequests using representative data from the United States on the actual (not intended or expected) bequests made to each of the couple's children. I find that these bequests are divided among children very similarly to the bequests left by single individuals, which have been the near-exclusive focus of the literature. In both cases, I observe ...
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作者：Chen, Pan
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Air quality in developing countries is often much worse than in developed economies, yet evidence on the long-term human capital effects of air pollution in these settings is limited. This paper uses a cohort difference- in-differences approach to examine the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution during China's 1950s industrialization on human capital formation. It assumes that economic opportunities linked to industrial plants impact upwind and downwind counties similarly within a 30...
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作者：Pucci, Rafael
摘要：This paper investigates the understudied phenomenon of urban land conflicts in contexts with weak enforcement of property rights. I examine, both theoretically and empirically, the use of arson as a violent tool to force slum removal from high-value land in cities. Leveraging fine-grained geocoded data, I employ panel regression and Difference-in-Differences analyses to demonstrate that the probability of slum fires dramatically increases with rising land prices. This effect is nonlinear and d...
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作者：Gans, Joshua S.
作者单位：University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We develop a model with two competing technological paths and analyse various regulatory interventions. The optimal regulatory approach depends critically on the magnitude of potential harm relative to technological benefits. Our analysis reveals a motive to double down on harmful technologies in resource allocation across research paths, challenging common intuitions about diversi...
