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作者：Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei
作者单位：Indian Statistical Institute; Indian Statistical Institute Delhi; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Union College
摘要：We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' performance under incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our results show that making individuals' hukou identity salient significantly reduces the performance of rural migrant students, relative to their local urban counterparts, on an incentivized cognitive task, and ...
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作者：Frisvold, David E.
作者单位：University of Iowa
摘要：This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who attends a school that participates in the program. To increase the availability of the SBP, many states mandate that schools participate in the program if the percent of free or reduced-price eligible students in a school exceeds a specific threshold. Using the d...
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作者：Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique; Dutta, Puja; Murgai, Rinku
作者单位：Georgetown University; The World Bank; The World Bank
摘要：Mass public information campaigns have promised to empower poor people, but do they deliver on that promise? We designed and implemented a trial information campaign in poor rural areas of India, in the form of an entertaining movie that teaches people their rights under a large national antipoverty program. In randomly assigned villages, the movie brought significant gains in knowledge and more positive perceptions about the scheme and village life relative to control villages. But objectivel...
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作者：Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio
作者单位：European University Institute; Rice University
摘要：We study the recruitment of individuals in the political sector. We propose an equilibrium model of political recruitment by two political parties competing in an election. We show that political parties may deliberately choose to recruit only mediocre politicians, in spite of the fact that they could select better individuals. Furthermore, we show that when political talent is scarce this phenomenon is more likely to occur in proportional than in majoritarian electoral systems. (C) 2015 Elsev...
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作者：Dippel, Christian
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：I use a unique dispute between major aid donors in the International Whaling Commission (WC) to investigate whether donor nations change their aid giving in response to changes in aid recipients' voting behavior inside international organizations (IOs). This relationship is difficult to pin down in most IOs because agenda items constantly change and donor coalitions fluctuate with them. I exploit the fact that the IWC has, on the one hand, seen two fixed aid donor blocs opposing each other for...
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作者：Goldin, Jacob
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Recent empirical work finds that consumers under-account for commodity taxes when the after-tax price is not prominent. I investigate how policymakers may utilize such low-salience taxes to promote welfare. The optimal combination of high- and low-salience taxes balances two competing effects: low-salience taxes dampen distortionary substitution but cause consumers to misallocate their budgets. Using a stylized model, I show the availability of taxes with differing salience provides an extra d...
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作者：Shu, Pian
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance applicants, previously examined only in the theoretical literature. Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and exhibit lower attachment to the labor force. These empirical res...
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作者：Fisman, Raymond; Jakiela, Pamela; Kariv, Shachar
作者单位：Boston University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：To better understand how support for redistributive policies is shaped by macroeconomic shocks, we explore how distributional preferences changed during the recent Great Recession. We conducted identical modified dictator games during both the recession and the preceding economic boom. The experiments capture subjects' selfishness (the weight on one's own payoff) and equality-efficiency tradeoffs (concerns for reducing differences in payoffs versus increasing total payoffs), which we then comp...
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作者：Li, Sanxi; Sun, Hailin; Yan, Jianye; Yu, Jun
作者单位：Renmin University of China; People's Bank of China; Tsinghua University; University of International Business & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：This paper investigates the principal's bundling decision during a procurement auction for a project consisting of two sequential tasks, in which task externality exists and information arrives sequentially. We show that, although increasing the number of bidders in the market for the second task always tilts the principal's choice toward unbundling, increasing the number of consortiums that can perform both tasks tilts the principal's preference toward bundling if the externality is negative....
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作者：Jantti, Markus; Pirttila, Jukka; Selin, Hakan
作者单位：Stockholm University; Tampere University
摘要：The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state. If labour supply elasticities are large, the burden of financing the model can be large even if, arguably, the practice of providing subsidised goods that support labour supply is likely to mitigate these effects. We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, including the four major Nordic countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities...
