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作者：Egebark, Johan; Ekstrom, Mathias; Plug, Erik; van Praag, Mirjam
作者单位：Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of London; University College London; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Copenhagen Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We study partner preferences for education and attractiveness by conducting a field experiment in a large online dating market. Fictitious profiles with manipulated levels of education and photo attractiveness send random invitations for a serious relationship to real online daters. We find that men and women prefer attractive over unattractive profiles, regardless of own attractiveness. We also find that high educated men prefer low-educated over high-educated profiles as much as high-educate...
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作者：Duan, Yuwan; Ji, Ting; Lu, Yi; Wang, Siying
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; University of British Columbia
摘要：We develop and quantitatively evaluate a general equilibrium trade model with pollution as a byproduct of production to study the interactions between international trade, the environment, and environmental regulations. Our analysis suggests that environmental regulations provide a source of comparative advantage, but we fail to find evidence that reducing trade barriers causes pollution-intensive industries to concentrate in countries with weak environmental regulation stringency. The reason ...
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作者：Ozek, Umut
作者单位：American Institutes for Research
摘要：High school graduation rates in the United States are at an all-time high, yet many of these graduates are deemed not ready for postsecondary coursework when they enter college. This study examines the short-, medium-, and long-term effects of remedial courses in middle school using a regression discontinuity design. While the short-term test score benefits of taking a remedial course in English language arts in middle school fade quickly, I find significant positive effects on the likelihood ...
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作者：Fernandez-Kranz, Daniel; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria
作者单位：IE University; City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：We use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities. Our analysis shows that well-intended policies can potentially backfire and aggravate labor market inequalities between men and women, since there is a very gendered take-up, with only women typically requesting part-time work. After the law was enacted, e...
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作者：Takaku, Reo; Yokoyama, Izumi
作者单位：Hitotsubashi University
摘要：To control the spread of COVID-19, the national government of Japan abruptly started the closure of ele-mentary schools on March 2, 2020, but preschools were exempted from this nationwide school closure. Taking advantage of this natural experiment, we examined how the proactive closure of elementary schools affected various outcomes related to children and family well-being. To identify the causal effects of the school closure, we exploited the discontinuity in the probability of going to scho...
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作者：Das, Sabyasachi; Dutta, Souvik; Sarkar, Abhirup
作者单位：Ashoka University; Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute; Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
摘要：The paper examines political economy consequences of a third party (World Bank) intervention in India. The intervention was a capacity building initiative that trained local politicians in various governance procedures in a sample of villages. We show that the state government reacted to the intervention by allocating additional resources to program villages with aligned incumbents. Consequently, party switching by opposition incumbents in favor of the ruling party went up significantly in pro...
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作者：Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Fernandez-Kranz, Daniel; Nollenberger, Natalia
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; IE University; IE University
摘要：With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown and its economic consequences on domestic violence have surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced cohabitation and economic stress on intimate partner violence. Using an online survey data set, we find a 23% increase of intimate partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the impact of lock...
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作者：Adhikari, Bibek; Alm, James; Harris, Timothy F.
作者单位：Illinois State University; Tulane University
摘要：How does third-party income reporting affect tax compliance? We use confidential administrative data from tax returns and information reports to estimate the impact of third-party income reporting on small business tax compliance. Since 2011, payment settlement entities (e.g., American Express) were required to report payment card transactions to both the firm and the Internal Revenue Service using Form 1099K. This requirement made businesses' receipts from payment cards-but not their cash rec...
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作者：Carey, Colleen
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：In many federally-subsidized insurance markets, insurers are subsidized on the basis of enrollee characteristics; in principle, subsidies that are risk adjusted in this way compensate insurers for ex ante differences in expected cost. Between 2010 and 2011, the subsidies in Medicare Part D were revised, sharply changing the subsidy for diagnoses and demographic characteristics. This paper uses the response of insurers to the subsidy update to estimate pass-through of government subsidies to tw...
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作者：Garcia-Mandico, Silvia; Reichert, Arndt; Strupat, Christoph
作者单位：Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Leibniz University Hannover; The World Bank; Deutsches Institut Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
摘要：We use the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on the financial consequences of health shocks and resulting changes in coping behaviors. We find a strong reduction in medical expenditures, preventing households from cutting non-food consumption and causing a decrease in the volume of received remittances as well as labor supply of healthy adult household members. Moreover, we present evidence that the insurance scheme reduced the likel...
