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作者：Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto; Simorangkir, Rhita P. B.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; National University of Singapore
摘要：We use space- and time-resolved mobility data to assess how heat impacts Singapore, a rich city state and arguably a harbinger of what is to come in the urbanising tropics. Singapore's offices, factories, malls, buses and trains are widely air conditioned, its public schools less so. We document increased attendance and commuting to workplaces, malls and the more air-conditioned schools on hotter relative to cooler days, particularly by low-income residents with limited use of adaptive technol...
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作者：Cannella, Mario; Makarin, Alexey; Pique, Ricardo
作者单位：European Central Bank; Bank of Italy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We explore the legacy of foreign state repression by using the case of the de facto annexed Nazi operational zones in Italy and a spatial regression discontinuity design. We show that the operational zones experienced harsher political persecution and violence. After the war, these exhibited greater support for radical opposition at the expense of the moderate ruling party. Consistent with a mechanism of greater distrust in the government, formerly annexed areas are more likely to vote against...
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作者：Coutts, Alexander; Gerhards, Leonie; Murad, Zahra
作者单位：York University - Canada; University of London; King's College London; University of Portsmouth; Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic; Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC)
摘要：People often receive feedback influenced by external factors, yet little is known about how this affects self-serving biases. Our theoretical model explores how multi-dimensional uncertainty allows additional degrees of freedom for self-serving bias. In our primary experiment, feedback combining an individual's ability and a teammate's ability leads to biased belief updating. However, in a follow-up experiment with a random fundamental replacing the teammate, unbiased updating occurs. A valida...
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作者：Litina, Anastasia; Fernandez, Eric Roca
作者单位：University of Macedonia; Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
摘要：This paper relates curiosity to economic development through its impact on human capital formation and technological advancement in pre-modern times. More specifically, we propose that exposure to inexplicable phenomena prompts curiosity and thinking in an attempt to comprehend these mysteries, thus raising human capital and technology, and, ultimately, fostering growth. We focus on solar eclipses as one particular trigger of curiosity and empirically establish a robust relationship between th...
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作者：Fontes, L. F.; Mrejen, M.; Rache, B.; Rocha, R.
作者单位：Insper; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This paper assesses the effects of adverse economic shocks on children's mental health. We rely on the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for mental conditions, which provides an unprecedented array of data on psychopathology, life events, family medical history as well as parental behaviour and polygenic scores for mental disorders over a ten-year period. Our empirical strategy exploits parental job loss events over time in a difference-in-differences framework. We document that parental job lo...
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作者：Bietenbeck, Jan
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：I provide evidence of social spillovers of personality by showing that being in class with motivated peers affects educational success. I first document that academic motivation, a key aspect of personality in the context of education, predicts own achievement, classroom behaviour, the high school grade point average and college-test taking among elementary school students. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I then show that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects a...
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作者：Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi
作者单位：Johannes Kepler University Linz; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Osaka
摘要：This paper investigates how labour-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterise profit-maximising equilibria and show that an increase in the supply of homogeneous workers can increase wages. Moreover, even though all workers are identical in terms of skills or productivity, profit-maximising discrimination equilibria exist. There, a group of majority workers is paid higher wages than a group of minority workers...
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作者：Coutts, Alexander; Gerhards, Leonie; Murad, Zahra
作者单位：Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic; Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC)
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作者：Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola
作者单位：Bocconi University; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Bocconi University
摘要：We investigate the role of time pressure in generating gender gaps in math tests. In a randomised experiment, college students took a twenty-question math test under high, low or no time pressure. Reducing or eliminating time pressure decreases the math gender gap by up to 40%. Larger gaps under time pressure are mostly due to increased anxiety rather than to students modifying their test-taking strategies. The correlation between math test scores and university performance is equally high und...
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作者：Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix
作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender norms, West-E...
