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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：Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：We investigate the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behaviour, using administrative data on cognitive ability, charitable giving, voting and possession of eco-friendly cars for 1.2 million individuals. We find strong positive associations for all three behaviours, which remain when using twin-pair fixed effects to account for confounders. We also find that general (fluid) intelligence is a stronger predictor than other dimensions of cognitive ability, and that most of the relati...
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作者：Ahmed, Firoz; Hodler, Roland; Islam, Asad
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作者：Cassidy, Traviss
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform generated permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts, while hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy publ...
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作者：De Haas, Ralph; Popov, Alexander
作者单位：European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; KU Leuven; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; European Central Bank
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作者：Hergueux, Jerome; Algan, Yann; Benkler, Yochai; Fuster-Morell, Mayo
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Harvard University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Harvard University; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
摘要：Many field public goods are provided by a small number of contributors: the 'superstars' of their respective communities. This paper focuses on Wikipedia, one of the largest online volunteering platforms. Over nine consecutive years, we study the relationship between social preferences-reciprocity, altruism and social image-and field cooperation. Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial on average, and superstars even more so. But while reciprocal and social image preferences strongly relate to c...
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作者：Ragan, Kelly Suzanne
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：The introduction of oral contraception ('the pill') was a watershed in fertility control. Yet, the pill's impact on childbearing has been hard to establish due to limited data. I exploit rich data on pill sales across markets and time to characterise how Swedish teens' access to pharmacies shaped pill sales and fertility after the pill's introduction. Pill sales are highly sensitive to pharmacy access, and teen fertility responds strongly to pill sales. The unique data establish an important l...
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作者：Lenard, Matthew A.; Silliman, Mikko
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Aalto University; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behaviour using idiosyncratic variation in peer groups stemming from changes in bus routes across elementary, middle and high school. Our results suggest that student interactions outside the classroom-especially in adolescence-may be an important factor in the education production function for both academic and, particularly, behavioural skills. The effects of interactions on the bus are also related to neighbour...
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作者：Achard, Pascal; Albrecht, Sabina; Ghidoni, Riccardo; Cettolin, Elena; Suetens, Sigrid
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Queensland; University of Bologna
摘要：We investigate the effect of exposure to refugees on locals' preferences with regard to ethnic minorities using individual-level panel data from the Netherlands. The data combine self-reported preferences with administrative data on the residential locations of the locals and the refugees. The study period is marked by a sudden inflow of refugees in some neighbourhoods. We find that individuals living close to newly installed refugee facilities developed a more positive attitude towards ethnic...
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作者：Liu, Manwei; Zhang, Sili
作者单位：Nanjing Audit University; University of Munich
摘要：Can people counteract biased narratives with subsequent information? Using an online experiment where counteracting may have the best odds by design, we investigate this question by first randomly assigning subjects to read different narratives that contain the same facts, and then offering them the opportunity to acquire and process balanced arguments. We document three main findings. First, subjects shift their attitudes towards the standpoint of the randomly assigned narrative, knowing that...
