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作者：Goette, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Hertie School
摘要：Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments at Italy's main blood donors association, evaluating social recognition through social media and peer groups against a simple ask to donate. Across several studies, we find that the simple ask is at least as effective as offering social recognition. In a survey experiment with blood donors we show that socially recognized donations signal not only altruism but also image -seeking. This can lead to social rec...
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作者：Langtry, Alastair
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：When a government makes many different policy decisions, lobbying can be viewed as a contest between the government and many different special interest groups. The government fights lobbying by interest groups with its own political capital. In this world, we find that a government wants to 'sell protection' - give favourable treatment in exchange for contributions - to certain interest groups. It does this in order to build its own 'war chest' of political capital, which improves its position...
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作者：Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：We investigate the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in the context of high informality, analyzing matched administrative and survey data with detailed information on consumption, transfers and informal and formal employment of UB recipients. Difference -in -differences analysis reveals a comparatively large consumption drop after the loss of a formal job, resulting from shifts towards lower -quality informal employment and an associated earnings penalty. Exploiting a UB kink, we ...
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作者：Shanan, Yannay
作者单位：Bar Ilan University
摘要：This paper examines the intergenerational effects of a welfare reform that increased welfare benefits generosity and eased eligibility requirements for single mothers in Israel. Using large-scale restricted administrative data and a difference-in-differences design, I find that the rise in single mothers' welfare participation rates following the reform had a significant impact on their children's long-term economic outcomes. Girls exposed to the reform in childhood were likelier to be on welf...
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作者：Gauss, P.; Kortenhaus, M.; Riedel, N.; Simmler, M.
作者单位：University of Munster; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute
摘要：A flourishing literature quantifies the corporate tax revenue losses from multinational profit shifting to lowtax economies. Other consequences of international tax avoidance have received little attention. In this paper, we empirically assess the widespread perception that international tax avoidance impacts product market outcomes and can put national competitors of multinational firms at a competitive disadvantage. The empirical identification strategy relies on changes in transfer pricing ...
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作者：Stuart, Ellen; Bryant, Victoria L.
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：Tax-benefited retirement accounts have features designed to encourage saving, including a penalty for withdrawing before age 5921. Account holders also face a penalty for failing to take required minimum withdrawals after age 72. Using a bunching analysis, we estimate that these penalties cause over 17% of traditional IRA holders to change their withdrawal timing each year, shifting almost $60 billion of distributions annually. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model to analyze the effect of ch...
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作者：Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
作者单位：Johannes Kepler University Linz; Vienna University of Economics & Business; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Many papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is causal, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of gender balance in fathers' workplaces. Fathers who encounter more women in their relevant age-occupation-group at work are more likely to divorce. This result is conditional on the overall proportion of female employees in a firm and on detailed industry affiliation. Parental divorce has persistent, an...
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作者：Singh, Abhijeet; Berg, Petter
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Assessment-led school reforms area central pillar of policy packages recommended to address low student achievement in developing countries. We use direct audit evidence to assess the truthfulness of official assessments in a reform that has tested over 6 million students annually since 2011 in the large Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Comparing responses to the same test questions by the same students shows a doubling of reported achievement in administrative data versus independent tests. Th...
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作者：McConnell, Brendon; Tan, Kegon Teng Kok; Zapryanova, Mariyana
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Smith College
摘要：We provide the first evidence of the impact of 9/11 on outcomes for Muslims in the US criminal justice system. We focus on parole outcomes of Black Muslim men in the state of Georgia, and find large post-9/11 declines in the likelihood of being granted parole and a subsequent 23% relative increase in prison time for Muslim inmates. These impacts persisted for several years after 9/11 and were larger for inmates with higher levels of recidivism risk. We argue that these effects reflect unwarran...
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作者：Shen, Karen
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
摘要：Due to population aging, the number of people needing long-term care is growing, and an increasing number of people are receiving this care at home, rather than in nursing homes. This trend has been driven in part by Medicaid, which has significantly increased public financing of formal home care over the past few decades. Using the 2000-2016 Health and Retirement Study and a difference-in-difference and triple-difference design, I investigate the effects of a Medicaid policy adopted in over h...
