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作者：Ellingsen, Sebastian; Hernaes, Oystein
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：We investigate the impact of commercial television on political participation and local policy outcomes. Exploiting a geographically staggered expansion of cable television after the liberalization of Norwegian broadcasting in 1981, we show that higher cable television penetration significantly reduced turnout in municipal elections. Using individual-level data, we find that cable television coverage had a negative effect on the extent to which respondents were exposed to political information...
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作者：Lusher, Lester; Campbell, Doug; Carrell, Scott
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; New Economic School; University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Using administrative data from a large, diverse university in California, we identify the extent to which the academic outcomes of undergraduates are affected by the race/ethnicity of their graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) in economics courses. To overcome selection in course taking, we exploit the timing of TA assignments, which occur after students enroll in a course, and use within class and within student variation in TA-student race composition. Focusing on an Asian vs. non-Asia...
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作者：Butikofer, Aline; Molland, Eirin; Salvanes, Kjell G.
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food, there is scarce evidence of the long-term effects of such programs. This paper studies the long-term and intergenerational consequences of access to nutritious food using the rollout of a free school breakfast program in Norwegian cities. This program provided children with nutritious food and replaced a hot school meal at the end of the day with similar caloric value but les...
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作者：Ahn, Taehyun
作者单位：Sogang University
摘要：This study examines the impacts of reemployment bonuses, that is, the incentive payments to unemployment insurance (UI) recipients who find a job within a specified period, using Korean data. A sharp discontinuity in treatment assignment at age 55 identifies the effect of increased reemployment bonuses on unemployment duration and on subsequent job duration. The results indicate that increases in the reemployment bonus boost the job-finding hazards of UI claimants early in their unemployment s...
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作者：Esteban, Joan; Levy, Gilat; Mayoral, Laura
作者单位：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Barcelona School of Economics; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Gothenburg
摘要：We study the effect of religiosity on the political choices over redistribution and the legal restrictions on personal liberties. We assume that the more religious an individual is, (i) the less he enjoys the use of liberties prohibited by his religion; and (ii) the higher the negative externality experienced when others practice those liberties. We show that legal restrictions on liberties has an impact on income inequality. We find that when the religious cleavage in society is large, high i...
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作者：Barrage, Lint
作者单位：Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Concerns about intergenerational equity have led to an influential practice of setting social utility discount rates based on ethical considerations rather than to match household behavior, particularly in climate change economics (e.g., Stern, 2006). This paper formalizes the broader policy implications of this approach in general equilibrium by characterizing jointly optimal environmental and fiscal policies in a climate-economy model with differential planner-household discounting. First, I...
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作者：Benhassine, Najy; McKenzie, David; Pouliquen, Victor; Santini, Massimiliano
作者单位：The World Bank; Paris School of Economics
摘要：Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to test these assumptions, along with supplementary efforts to enhance the presumed benefits of formalizing to firms. Few firms register when just given information about the new regime, but ou...
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作者：Godoy, Anna; Dale-Olsen, Harald
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study peer effects in absenteeism among workplace colleagues. Gatekeeping is an essential task in many insurance systems. In this study we exploit exogenous shifts of general practitioners (GPs) occurring when physicians quit or retire. We find that these shifts induce changes in absenteeism for affected workers. By utilizing high-quality Norwegian matched employer-employee data with detailed individual information on certified sick leave during the period 2003-2012, we can study how the tr...
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作者：Schmidheiny, Kurt; Slotwinski, Michaela
作者单位：University of Basel
摘要：We study location choice and residential mobility responses to local income taxes exploiting a special tax regime which applies to foreign employees residing in Switzerland. The institutional setting used generates a deterministic duration threshold at 5 years of stay in the country, at which the local tax rates an individual faces simultaneously change in all municipalities. We exploit this exogenous variation by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to merged survey and administra...
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作者：Tazhitdinova, Alisa
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：In absence of third-party reporting, taxpayers are required to self-report information with various degrees of detail, ranging from uncorroborated claims to comprehensive records with receipts. Using a quasi experimental design applied to noncash charitable contribution deductions, I show that even basic self reporting requirements are effective at reducing evasion but impose large compliance costs on taxpayers. I find that simplified reporting requirements reduce reporting costs by $55 per pe...
