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作者：Calonico, Sebastian; Smith, Jeffrey
作者单位：University of Miami; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：This paper re-creates three of the samples from LaLonde's famous 1986 paper that began the literature on within-study designs that uses experiments as benchmarks against which to assess the performance of nonexperimental identification strategies. In particular, we recreate the experimental data for the target group of women on welfare from the National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration and two of the corresponding comparison groups drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The lo...
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作者：Bingley, Paul; Martinello, Alessandro
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：We propose a general framework for determining the extent of measurement error bias in ordinary least squares and instrumental variable (IV) estimators of linear models while allowing for measurement error in the validation source. We apply this method by validating Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe data with Danish administrative registers. Contrary to most validation studies, we find that measurement error in income is classical once we account for imperfect validation data. ...
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作者：Vosters, Kelly; Nybom, Martin
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Stockholm University; Stockholm University
摘要：Recently Gregory Clark and coauthors have argued that social mobility rates are constant across countries and lower than traditionally estimated, hypothesizing that prior estimates of intergenerational persistence are attenuated from focusing on a single proxy for underlying status. We test this proposition by incorporating multiple proxy measures into a least-attenuated estimate of persistence for Sweden and conducting a Sweden-United States comparison. We find no evidence of substantial bias...
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作者：Bar, Revital; Zussman, Asaf
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：This paper studies customer discrimination against Arab workers in the Israeli market for labor-intensive services. Relying on surveys, field data, and a natural experiment, we provide evidence consistent with Becker's customer discrimination model. First, a significant share of Jewish customers prefer to receive labor-intensive services from firms employing Jewish rather than Arab workers; these preferences are most strongly linked to concerns for personal safety. Second, customer preferences...
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作者：Brinkman, Sally Anne; Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Pradhan, Menno
作者单位：University of Western Australia; The Kids Research Institute Australia; University of Western Australia; The World Bank; Korea University; University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This paper examines the effects of an intervention that expanded access to low-cost, government-sponsored, community-based playgroups in rural Indonesia. Instrumental variables and difference-in-differences models indicate that while the intervention raised enrollment rates and durations of enrollment for everyone, on average, there was little impact on child development. The two models correspond to different durations of project exposure. The difference-in-differences model captures greater ...
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作者：Horton, John J.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Algorithmically recommending workers to employers for the purpose of recruiting can substantially increase hiring: in an experiment conducted in an online labor market, employers with technical job vacancies that received recruiting recommendations had a 20% higher fill rate compared to the control. There is no evidence that the treatment crowded out hiring of nonrecommended candidates. The experimentally induced recruits were highly positively selected and were statistically indistinguishable...
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作者：Farber, Henry S.
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：Data are used from the 1984-2016 Displaced Workers Surveys (DWS) to investigate the incidence and consequences of job loss, 1981-2015. These data show a record high rate of job loss in the Great Recession, with serious employment consequences for job losers, including very low rates of re-employment and difficulty finding full-time employment. The average reduction in weekly earnings for job losers making a full-time-full-time transition are relatively small, with a substantial minority report...
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作者：Olsson, Martin; Tag, Joacim
作者单位：Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
摘要：Private equity firms are often criticized for laying off workers, but the evidence on who loses their jobs and why is scarce. This paper argues that explanations for job polarization also explain layoffs after private equity buyouts. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation and offshoring. Using rich employer-employee data, we show that buyouts generally do not affect unemployment incidence. However, unemployment incidence doubles for workers in less productive firms who perfo...
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作者：Bose, Gautam; Lang, Kevin
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Much nonmanagerial work is routine, with all workers having similar output most of the time. However, failure to address occasional challenges can be very costly, and consequently easily detected, while challenges handled well pass unnoticed. We analyze job assignment and worker monitoring for such guardian jobs. If monitoring costs are positive but small, monitoring is nonmonotonic in the firm's belief about the probability that a worker is good. The model explains several empirical regularit...
