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作者：Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller extent. These findings indicate that a substantial part of the correlations in study choices between family members can be attributed to spillover effects and are not due to shared environments. Our findi...
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作者：Cohen, Isabelle
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：The ability of the state to collect tax revenue is a crucial indicator in the process of economic development, yet the functioning of tax compliance in low-capacity countries remains poorly understood. Using a randomized evaluation, I study a simple text message reminder scheme implemented by the Uganda Revenue Authority, which increases tax compliance by 7%. This average effect masks substantial treatment effect heterogeneity by an index of the presence of public services, measured via a gran...
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作者：Hembre, Erik; Collins, J. Michael; Wylde, Samuel
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：This study analyzes patterns of housing consumption and expenditures among low-income households since 1985. For households in the bottom income quintile, real monthly housing expenditures have risen from $605 to $1,045. However, these increased expenditures partially reflect housing quantity improvements, including more square footage, more rooms, and larger lot sizes. The data also show a marked improvement in housing quality, such as fewer sagging roofs, broken appliances, rodents, and peel...
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作者：Gortazar, Lucas; Hupkau, Claudia; Roldan-Mones, Antonio
作者单位：Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); The World Bank; CUNEF Universidad; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100 -percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight -week-long program was delivered in groups of two students during after -school hours, mostly by qualified math teachers. The intervention significantly increased standardized test scores (+0.26 SD) and end -of -year math grades (+0.49 SD), while reducing the probabi...
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作者：Bos, Johannes M.; Shonchoy, Abu S.; Ravindran, Saravana; Khan, Akib
作者单位：American Institutes for Research; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; National University of Singapore; Uppsala University
摘要：Can governments leverage existing service -delivery platforms to scale early childhood development (ECD) interventions? We experimentally study a large-scale, low-cost home -visiting intervention - providing materials and counseling - integrated into Bangladesh's national nutrition program without extra financial incentives for service providers (SPs). We find SPs partially substitute away from nutritional to ECD counseling. Intent -to -treat estimates show positive impacts on child's cognitio...
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作者：Jimenez, Gabriel; Martinez-Miera, David; Peydro, Jose-Luis
作者单位：Banco de Espana; Imperial College London
摘要：We analyze the effects of only shifting the statutory incidence of taxes by exploiting: (i) a mortgage tax shift from being levied on borrowers to being levied on banks, without tax rate changes; (ii) some areas -for historical reasons- being tax-exempt (or having different tax rates); and (iii) administrative data. After the shift, the average mortgage rate increases, less for households with more banking opportunities or with higher income. The tax pass-through is nonexistent for high-income...
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作者：Holt, Christopher; Linn, Joshua
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are a precursor to ground-level ozone, a pernicious pollutant that is harmful to human health and ecosystems. Despite decades of regulations and a precipitous decline in NOx emissions, episodic high-ozone events prevent many areas from attaining air quality standards. Theoretically, spatially or temporally differentiated emissions prices could be more cost effective at reducing such events than a uniform price. To test this prediction, with data from EPA and NOAA spanning...
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作者：Guo, Audrey
作者单位：Santa Clara University
摘要：Economic models assume that payroll tax burdens fall fully on workers, but where does tax incidence fall when taxes are firm-specific and time-varying? Unemployment insurance in the United States has the key feature of varying both across employers and over time, creating the potential for labor demand responses if tax costs cannot be fully passed through to worker wages. Using state policy changes and administrative data of matched employer-employee job spells, I study how employment and earn...
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作者：Jorgensen, Thomas Hogholm; Sogaard, Jakob Egholt
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：We study several key aspects of the design of parental leave systems. First, we estimate parents' willingness to pay for parental leave using Danish administrative data on the division of leave from almost 190,000 births combined with sharp variation in economic incentives created by the parental leave benefit system. We find evidence of both strong behavioral responses with significant bunching at kink points and a willingness to pay for a gender-traditional allocation of leave, where fathers...
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作者：Chesney, Alexander J.; Carrell, Scott E.
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Air Force; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This paper analyzes ordinal rank across cognitive and physical ability within an initial job training program. Using a rich administrative dataset and conditional random assignment of trainees to peer groups, we test whether rank effects vary across contemporaneous training and long-term career outcomes. We find cognitive ordinal rank, measured by an individual's score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), has a meaningful impact on completing initial training into the U.S. Air Force ...
