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作者：Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Fafchamps, Marcel; Goldstein, Markus; Leonard, Kenneth L.; Papineni, Sreelakshmi
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Stanford University; The World Bank; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore
摘要：We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and husbands have strong preferences over process: wo...
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作者：Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Paris School of Economics; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We explore the consequences of the development of home working for wages, hours worked and employee health in the post-COVID era. We base our research strategy on a French law passed in 2017 to encourage telework agreements between employers and employees. In the months following the law, many establishments signed telework agreements, and we show that this subsequently led to a much greater development of home working in these establishments after the epidemic shock in 2020. This increase was...
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作者：Sevuk, Baris
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：Fumagalli and Motta (The Economic Journal, 2008) argued that competition among downstream buyers limits the ability of a dominant upstream firm to deter entry by a more efficient competitor. This comment demonstrates that the impact of downstream competition is, in fact, more complex. In particular, competition can motivate buyers to favour the incumbent due to a 'raising rivals' cost' effect.
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作者：Boucher, Stephen R.; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; Lybbert, Travis J.; Malacarne, Jonathan G.; Marenya, Paswel P.; Paul, Laura A.
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作者：Knittel, Christopher R.; Stolper, Samuel
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We test the ability of causal forests to improve, through selective targeting, the effectiveness of a randomised program providing repeated behavioural nudges towards household energy conservation. The average treatment effect of the program is a monthly electricity reduction of 9 kilowatt hours (kWh), but the full distribution of predicted reductions ranges from roughly 1 to 33 kWh. Pre-treatment electricity consumption and home value are the strongest predictors of differential treatment eff...
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作者：Kerwin, Jason T.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper shows that responses to disease risks can be 'fatalistic': higher risk beliefs can lead to more risk-taking rather than less. Intuitively, this can occur because high risk beliefs raise not only the chance of contracting the disease (which raises the marginal cost of risk-taking), but also the perceived chance that you are already infected (which lowers the marginal cost). I test for fatalism by randomly providing information about the true (low) average risk of HIV transmission in ...
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作者：De Haan, Monique; Schreiner, Ragnhild C.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Oslo
摘要：Exploiting rich administrative data from Norway, we estimate non-parametric bounds around the average causal effect of parental welfare participation on children's welfare participation for children that grew up in welfare-dependent families. We find upper bounds well below the intergenerational association and substantially below existing local average treatment effect estimates in the literature. Our results show that a substantial portion of the observed intergenerational correlation in wel...
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作者：Desmet, Klaus; Ortin, Ignacio Ortuno; Ozak, Omer
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper analyses whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct ethnolinguistic identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for the entire globe, we predict the propensity to secede of 3,153 subnational regions in 177 countries. We validate th...
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作者：Dillon, Brian; Aker, Jenny C.; Blumenstock, Joshua E.
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We study the impact of a low-cost intervention to reduce information frictions in rural markets by randomly assigning small and medium enterprises in Tanzania to be listed in a telephone directory. The listed firms expand their communication networks, increase sales and make greater use of mobile money, with positive spillovers to firms in the same village. Estimated effects are larger and more statistically precise for firms that are more productive at baseline, consistent with consumers seek...
