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作者：Lavecchia, Adam M.
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：Using a search model, 1 derive a formula that links the welfare gains from the minimum wage to its effect on low-skilled labor force participation and employment. This formula shows that the minimum wage is welfare improving if pushing the low-skilled labor market tightness downwards brings it closer to its efficient level. 1 estimate the causal effect of the minimum wage on low-skilled labor force participation and employment using federal and state minimum wage variation. I discuss the polic...
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作者：Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Mueller, Daniel
作者单位：University of Innsbruck
摘要：This paper investigates in a large and heterogeneous sample the relationship between social preferences and political attitudes. Social preferences relate to political attitudes in a particular way: Selfish subjects are the extremists on the one side of the political spectrum - they are more likely to vote for a right-wing party, less inclined to favor redistribution, less likely to hold favorable views towards immigration and more likely to consider themselves right-wing than all other types....
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作者：Hernandez-Pizarro, Helena M.; Nicodemo, Catia; Lopez Casasnovas, Guillem
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; University of Oxford
摘要：This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured into discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. We provide new evidence on this issue, focusing on a case where strategic actions are taken by healthcare providers (HCPs). We show that HCPs adjust the score of claimants in long-term care needs assessments, allowing claimants to access higher levels of care benefits. This adjustment does not bri...
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作者：Kaplan, Greg; Mitman, Kurt; Violante, Giovanni L.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Princeton University
摘要：In an influential paper, Mian, Rao, and Sufi (2013) exploit geographic variation to measure the effect of the fall in housing net worth on household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary house price and proprietary expenditure data and therefore not easily replicable. We use alternative data on a subset of non-durable goods and on house prices, which are more easily accessible, to replicate their study. When estimating their same specifi...
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作者：Tannenbaum, Daniel I.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：While the social costs of gun violence are high, opponents of gun restrictions argue that gun ownership deters crime and creates a positive externality by increasing unobserved risk to criminals. This paper investigates the evidence for these two deterrence channels, exploiting the sudden disclosure of all handgun permit holders' names and addresses in two New York counties. Permit holders have more crime incidents at their homes relative to non-permit holders in the baseline, which is not dri...
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作者：Jaravel, Xavier; O'Connell, Martin
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We characterize inflation dynamics during the Great Lockdown using scanner data coveringmillions of transactions for fast-moving consumer goods in the United Kingdom. We show that there was a significant and widespread spike in inflation. First, aggregate month-to-month inflation was 2.4% in the first month of lockdown, a rate over 10 times higher than in preceding months. Over half of this increase stems from reduced frequency of promotions. Consumers' purchasing power was further eroded by a...
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作者：Ku, Hyejin; Schonberg, Uta; Schreiner, Ragnhild C.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Oslo
摘要：In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of place-based payroll taxes in stimulating local employment by exploiting a unique policy setting in Norway, where a system of geographically differentiated payroll taxes was suddenly abolished due to an EU regulation. The reform was enforced independently of the regional labor market developments, creating arguably exogenous variation in the payroll tax rates that firms in different local labor markets faced over time. We find evidence of partial ...
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作者：Broockman, David E.; Soltas, Evan J.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We exploit a natural experiment to study discrimination in elections. In Illinois Republican presidential primaries, voters vote for delegates bound to presidential candidates, but delegates' names convey information about their race and gender. We identify discrimination from variation in vote totals among delegates bound to the same presidential candidate and who face the same voters. Examining delegate vote totals from 2000 to 2016, we estimate nonwhite delegates receive 9% fewer votes. We ...
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作者：Fredriksson, Peter; Soderstrom, Martin
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：We estimate the macro effect of an increase in the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment in Sweden using regional data. The national UI benefit formula features a benefit ceiling and a statutory replacement rate, and does not take regional wage differentials into account. Changes in the national rules are useful for identification, since a change in the benefit ceiling, for example, has a greater impact on UI generosity in a high-wage region than in a low-wage region becaus...
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作者：Lee, Ajin
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：Medicaid has increasingly transitioned from a government-run fee-for-service system (FFS) to a managed care system (MMC) administered by private insurers. To examine the effect of MMC, I exploit an arbitrary determinant of MMC enrollment in New York State: infants weighing less than 1200 g were excluded from MMC and were instead served through FFS. I find evidence that MMC reduces hospital costs at birth, which is driven by infants born in New York City. The hospital cost reductions arise from...
