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作者：Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason T.; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Bocconi University; University of Oxford; University of Antwerp
摘要：We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard commitment devices to high-risk men in Malawi. Appointments more than double testing rates, with effects concentrated among those who demand commitment. In contrast, most men who take up hard commitments l...
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作者：Loumeau, Gabriel
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This paper studies the performance of New Towns, that is, planned large urban sub-centres, as a central tool to accommodate the global rise in urbanisation. A spatial quantifiable general equilibrium framework suitable to study large-scale urban master plans is presented. The framework is then used to investigate the equilibrium effects of five New Towns developed in the 1970s in Paris's metropolitan area. By 2015, the development of New Towns appears to have increased metropolitan population ...
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作者：Jelveh, Zubin; Kogut, Bruce; Naidu, Suresh
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in economics. We estimate journal-specific effects on ...
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作者：Quinn, Martin; de Matos, Miguel Godinho; Peukert, Christian
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; University of Lausanne
摘要：We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-like-at-home regulation, which has drastically reduced the price of accessing the mobile Internet for residents of the European Economic Area when travelling abroad in the European Economic Area. Our estimates using individual-level consumption data suggest that consumer surplus increased by around euro2.44 per user and travel day. We show that around 40% of the consumer surplus gains originated from a reduction in deadweight loss, that is, new users...
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作者：Hagen, Martin
作者单位：CUNEF Universidad
摘要：This paper introduces a new mechanism to distribute refugees within the European Union. The usual approach of assigning mandatory refugee quotas has been heavily opposed by several countries. Our mechanism adjusts these quotas to countries' preferences on immigration. All countries become weakly better off, even though they do not exchange monetary transfers, which are ethically controversial. We formally model refugee relocation as a division problem with single-peaked preferences. Our 'quota...
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作者：Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
作者单位：University of Basel; University of Basel; University of St Gallen
摘要：We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the more special interest money they receive from groups favouring the opposite position. The latter effect is significantly larger when less attention is paid to politics due to distraction by exogenous newsw...
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作者：Piveteau, Paul; Smagghue, Gabriel
作者单位：Cornerstone Research; European Central Bank; Bank of France
摘要：We document that firms with low prices are more impacted by low-cost competition. To explain this pattern, we propose an empirical model of trade with random-coefficient demand and endogenous product quality. Unlike commonly used demand systems (e.g., constant elasticity of substitution, nested logit), this model generates rich substitution patterns and implies an 'escape-competition' effect: in response to low-cost competition, firms have an incentive to upgrade their product quality. The est...
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作者：Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil M.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Women tend to experience a substantial decline in their labour income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such 'child penalties' also exist in the political arena? Using comprehensive administrative data from Norway, we find that women are less likely than men to secure elected office after their first child is born. The effects already manifest from the nomination stage, where mothers receive less favourable rankings on party lists relative to comparable fathers. This paper ...
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作者：Horvath, Gergely
作者单位：Duke Kunshan University
摘要：We experimentally study effort provision and network formation in the linear-quadratic game characterised by positive externality and complementarity of effort choices among network neighbours. We compare experimental outcomes to the equilibrium and efficient allocations and study the impact of group size and linking costs. We find that individuals overprovide effort relative to the equilibrium level on the network they form. However, their payoffs are lower than the equilibrium payoffs becaus...
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作者：Priebe, Jan; Rink, Ute; Stemmler, Henry
