2024

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• Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy ☆ AI翻译
  作者：Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gaessler, Fabian
  作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of London; University College London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Pompeu Fabra University; Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
  摘要：Despite a longstanding interest in the potential substitution of labor and capital, limited empirical evidence exists regarding the causal relationship between labor supply and the development of labor-saving technologies. This study examines the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by leveraging a German immigrant allocation policy during the 1990s and 2000s. The findings reveal that an increase in the low -skilled workforce reduces automation innovati...
• The effects of recreational marijuana laws on drug use and crime AI翻译
  作者：Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, Daniel I.
  作者单位：California State University System; San Diego State University; Bentley University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  摘要：Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the sale and possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 24 states and the District of Columbia. Using a generalized difference-indifferences approach and data for the period 2000-2019 from a variety of sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the Treatment Episode Data Set, and the National Vital Statistics Mortality files), this study comprehensively examines t...
• Self-signaling in voting AI翻译
  作者：Mechtenberg, Lydia; Perino, Grischa; Treich, Nicolas; Tyran, Jean -Robert; Wang, Stephanie W.
  作者单位：University of Hamburg; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics; INRAE; University of Vienna; University of Copenhagen; University of Economics Bratislava; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
  摘要：This paper presents a two-wave survey experiment to examine the impact of self-image concerns on voting behavior. We elicit votes on a ballot initiative on animal welfare in Switzerland that spurred campaigns involving widely shared normative values. We send a message to voters about scientific evidence supporting the claim that good-hearted people tend to be good to animals. We interpret this message as a factor that may alter the selfsignaling value linked to voting in favor of the initiativ...
• Disparate racial impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on voter turnout AI翻译
  作者：Billings, Stephen B.; Braun, Noah; Jones, Daniel B.; Shi, Ying
  作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Syracuse University
  摘要：In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that enabled federal electoral oversight in select jurisdictions. We study whether this decision disproportionately impacted ballot access for Black and Hispanic registered voters. We use a rich dataset on voter behavior for the universe of registered voters combined with Census block-level sociodemographic attributes to document a decrease in turnout for Black, relative to white, i...
• Intrahousehold inequality and the joint taxation of household earnings AI翻译
  作者：Alves, Cassiano B.; da Costa, Carlos E.; Lobel, Felipe; Moreira, Humberto
  作者单位：Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro; Columbia University
  摘要：We derive the optimal joint-income tax schedule for couples, focusing on the distinction between interpersonal and inter-household inequality. Households are composed of two spouses with possibly unequal access to the family's economic resources. Individual-oriented utilitarianism typically leads to a misalignment between the households' and the government's objectives, a phenomenon termed dissonance by Apps and Rees (1988). The traditional ABC formula must be amended by including a Pigouvian ...
• The McMansion effect: Positional externalities in US suburbs AI翻译
  作者：Bellet, Clement S.
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
  摘要：This paper examines how the construction of very large homes - or McMansions - in U.S. suburbs affects homeowners' satisfaction and housing behavior. Combining three decades of survey data with geolocated information on three million suburban houses, I find that homeowners exposed to newly constructed, large houses report lower satisfaction with their own homes, while their neighborhood satisfaction remains unaffected. This effect is contingent on the visual salience of McMansions, as indicate...
• Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years study AI翻译
  作者：Sauval, Maria; Duncan, Greg J.; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Magnuson, Katherine A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Noble, Kimberly G.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Columbia University Teachers College; Columbia University; New York University
  摘要：How the labor force participation of mothers of young children responds to unconditioned cash support remains an open question in policy debates. Using data from Baby's First Years, a large-scale randomized controlled study, we generate new estimates of the impact of an unconditional monthly cash transfer on maternal employment behavior through a child's first four years of life. We find no overall statistically detectable differences in whether mothers participated in the paid workforce or on...
• The long-run implications of slum clearance: A neighborhood analysis AI翻译
  作者：LaVoice, Jessica
  作者单位：Bowdoin College
  摘要：This paper analyzes the federal urban renewal and slum clearance program. This program was one of the largest and most controversial policies used to rehabilitate neighborhoods in the United States. Using a newly constructed dataset, I examine the characteristics of neighborhoods cleared for redevelopment and the effect that such projects had on neighborhoods over time. I show that conditional on experiencing urban blight, Black neighborhoods were twice as likely as white neighborhoods to be t...
• The Benefitsof being small: Loose fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union AI翻译
  作者：Crombach, Lamar; Bohn, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert
  作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Radboud University Nijmegen; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
  摘要：Independent central banks typically counteract positive fiscal shocks that would otherwise increase the inflation rate above the target. In a theoretical model, we show that, in a monetary union, this mechanism implies weaker responses to national fiscal shocks because the overarching central bank must account for the fiscal policies of all members. The model highlights that the response is especially weak for small members, given their marginal impact on the union's aggregate inflation rate. ...
• The demand for protection and the persistently high rates of gun violence among young black males ☆ AI翻译
  作者：Evans, William N.; Kotowski, Maciej H.
  作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame
  摘要：We develop a theoretical model to explain the persistently high level of gun violence for black males ages 15- 24 consistent with the empirical literature. A person may carry a gun for instrumental (i.e., criminal) reasons or for its perceived protective benefit. Discerning underlying motives is difficult. A shock to the instrumental benefit can move the equilibrium to one with a high gun prevalence. The model demonstrates that there are larger returns to reducing the value of guns for crime t...