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作者：Falisse, Jean-Benoit; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Olofsgard, Anders
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：We designed and randomly evaluated the impact of textbooks for a self-study scheme in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo targeting student achievement in primary schools. Students in treatment schools were 7 percentage points more likely to pass the national exam, and those who passed obtained higher scores. We also evidence higher scores on a French language test. The effects are primarily driven by student interest in textbooks, frequency of doing homework and motivation t...
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作者：Catonini, Emiliano
作者单位：New York University; NYU Shanghai
摘要：I show that, in an extensive-form game, the outcomes that are consistent with iterated admissibility (i.e., with the iterated elimination of weakly dominated strategies) need not be consistent with extensive-form rationalizability.
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作者：Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher
作者单位：University of Cologne; University of Copenhagen; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Cologne; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Max Planck Society
摘要：We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US voters, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in a right-wing biased, left-wing biased or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Right-wing voters strongly reduce their demand for left-wing biased news, but not for right-wing biased news. The reverse patterns hold for left-wing ...
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作者：Riano, Juan Felipe; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of British Columbia; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We investigate the long-term impact of conflict on economic development, focusing on the US 'Secret War' in Laos (1964-73). Our study employs multiple empirical strategies and data on bombing campaigns, satellite imagery, and development indicators to demonstrate that regions heavily bombed during this period experienced lower economic development almost fifty years after the conflict officially ended. A one-standard-deviation increase in bombing intensity is associated with a 7.1% decrease in...
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作者：Ershov, Daniel; Morales, Juan S.
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University
摘要：On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform, the new interface nudged users to be thoughtful about the content they were sharing. Using data on over 160,000 tweets by US news media outlets, we show that this policy significantly reduced news sharing, but that the reductions varied heterogeneously by political slant: sharing of content fell signi...
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作者：Allub, Lian; Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoe
作者单位：University of London; Birkbeck University London; Autonomous University of Madrid
摘要：Capital-skill complementarity in production implies non-trivial interactions between the availability of human capital and financial constraints. Firms that are constrained in their access to finance hire a lower proportion of skilled workers than do unconstrained firms. Conversely, a lack of human capital increases skilled wages, reducing firms' desired capital intensity and thus loosening firms' effective financial constraints. To assess the macroeconomic implications of such firm-level inte...
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作者：Leib, Margarita; Koebis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; Hagens, Marloes; Irlenbusch, Bernd
作者单位：Tilburg University; Max Planck Society; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Cologne
摘要：Artificial intelligence increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if artificial intelligence persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how artificial intelligence advice (generated by a natural language processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent human advice and test whether transparency about the advice source matters. We find that dishonesty-promoting advice increases dishonesty, whereas honesty-promoting advi...
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作者：Dyrda, Sebastian; Pugsley, Benjamin
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Almost half of all private employment in the United States is within businesses that do not pay corporate income tax. Instead, business income passes through to the owners' individual income taxes. This pass-through share of employment has more than tripled since the early 1980s. Using comprehensive, confidential administrative data, this paper highlights five core findings underlying this growth: (1) the rise in pass-throughs is pervasive across industries and states; (2) the pass-through sha...
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作者：Lee, Munseob
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：Cross-country disparities in labour productivity are more pronounced in agriculture than other sectors. I posit that the misallocation of female talent between sectors distorts productivity and formalise a general equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If female workers encounter greater barriers in non-agricultural sectors, female workers who are better skilled at non-agricultural jobs may select into the agricultural sector. Analysis of data from sixty-six countries reveals th...
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作者：Aslim, Erkmen G.; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal
作者单位：University of Vermont; University of Louisville; Analysis Group Inc.; American University
摘要：This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual propensity to delay or skip medical care. Our research design exploits the arguably exogenous variation in age-specific vaccine eligibility rollout across states and over time as an instrument for individual vaccination status. We find that receiving a COVID-19 vaccine reduces the likelihood of delaying care for any medical condition by 37%. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that children are significantly less likely to...
