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作者：Lee, Youngju; Nakazawa, Nobuhiko
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Hitotsubashi University
摘要：In this study, we investigate the effects of graduating from a single-sex high school on future labor mar-ket outcomes through the use of a randomized natural experiment. South Korean students are randomly assigned, by lottery, to single-sex or coeducational schools in their school districts. Using a large set of individual-level panel data, we find that graduating from single-sex schools significantly decreases females & rsquo; future earnings after graduation. In contrast, single-sex educati...
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作者：Reck, Daniel; Slemrod, Joel; Vatto, Trine Engh
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Statistics Norway
摘要：We conduct the first-ever study of actual searches done in a public tax disclosure system, analyzing about one million searches done in 2014 and 2015 in Norway. We characterize the social network these searches comprise, including its degree of homophily and reciprocation, and the demographics of targets and searchers. About one-fourth of searches occur within identifiable household and employment networks. Most searchers target people similar to themselves-homophily in network parlance-but yo...
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作者：Akbarpour, Mohammad; Kapor, Adam; Neilson, Christopher; van Dijk, Winnie; Zimmerman, Seth
作者单位：Stanford University; Princeton University; Harvard University; Yale University
摘要：We study how market design choices exacerbate or mitigate pre-existing inequalities among participants. We introduce outside options in a well-known school choice model, and show that students always prefer manipulable over strategy-proof mechanisms if and only if they have an outside option. We test for the proposed relationship between outside options and manipulability in a setting where we can identify students' outside options and observe applications under two mechanisms. Consistent with...
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作者：Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona
作者单位：University of Passau; University of Passau
摘要：We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and casualties by eight percent. Yet, immediately after the SLMO day, all effects vanish. Further evidence suggests that people drive mo...
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作者：Haan, Peter; Peichl, Andreas; Schrenker, Annekatrin; Weizsaecker, Georg; Winter, Joachim
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; University of Munich; Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要：This paper studies how the communication of political leaders affects the expectation formation of the public. Specifically, we examine the expectation management of the German government regarding COVID-19-related regulatory measures during the early phase of the pandemic. We elicit beliefs about the duration of these restrictions via a high-frequency survey of individuals, accompanied by an addi-tional survey of firms. To quantify the success of policy communication, we use a regression disc...
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作者：Braverman, Mark; Chassang, Sylvain
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：This paper explores whether big data, taking the form of extensive high dimensional records, can reduce the cost of adverse selection by private insurers in government-run capitation schemes, such as Medicare Advantage. We argue that using data to improve the ex ante precision of capitation regressions is unlikely to be helpful. Even if types become essentially observable, the high dimensionality of covariates makes it infeasible to precisely estimate the cost of serving a given type: big data...
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作者：Eguia, Jon X.
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：I present a theory of policy-motivated multilateral conflict. Consider an environment in which a Target country implements domestic policies that other countries find harmful. Any sufficiently pow-erful country can launch an intervention in the Target country to replace its regime and its policies, and any country can support or oppose any intervention. I study the decisions to intervene, and to support or oppose each intervention. The theory delivers intuitive comparative statics: an interven...
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作者：Carvalho, Jean -Paul; Pradelski, Bary S. R.
作者单位：University of Oxford; Inria; Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes; Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble; University of Oxford
摘要：Economic outcomes vary significantly across socio-demographic groups. In a model of multidimensional identity, we show how differences in economic participation can give rise to identity-specific norms which 'normalize' and lock in the historical underrepresentation of various groups. Whereas standard approaches treat identity dimensions as independent, our analysis reveals deep connections between inequality and underrepresentation based on race, gender, and other characteristics. 'Sterilized...
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作者：Hagen, Martin
作者单位：CUNEF Universidad
摘要：This paper revisits the theory behind tradable immigration quotas, which have been proposed to raise South-North migration and, specifically, refugee resettlement. We qualify previous research by showing that tradable immigration quotas are generally not utilitarian efficient for host countries. The reason is that global migration entails more complex externalities than other public-good problems, such as environmental protection, where market-based instruments are common. The inefficiency is ...
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作者：Chan, Marc K.; Morris, Todd; Polidano, Cain; Vu, Ha
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Max Planck Society; University of Melbourne; Deakin University
摘要：Many governments offer tax concessions for retirement contributions. In this paper, we show that income responses are crucial for understanding their effectiveness in raising retirement savings and alleviating the fiscal pressures of population aging. Using tax register data, we study large changes in caps on tax-favored contributions to individual retirement accounts in Australia. We find that higher caps increase retirement contributions considerably, with around two-thirds of this response ...
