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作者：Braun, Christine
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：I document a substantial rise in the proportion of job seekers who are classified as out of the labour force in the United States since 1980. I propose an adjusted unemployment rate to account for these searchers; the adjustment increases the unemployment rate by 5.2 percentage points, rids the unemployment rate of its downward trend and decreases volatility by 50%. I also construct a measure of total search effort in the economy, including employed job seekers. Finally, estimates of the Phill...
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作者：Getik, Demid
作者单位：Durham University
摘要：The share of couples where the wife outearns the husband is increasing globally. In this paper, I examine how this dynamic affects mental health. Using data on the 2001 marital cohort in Sweden, I show that while mental health is positively associated with own and spousal income, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income. In the most conservative specification, the wife starting to earn more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8%-11%. This represents a signific...
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作者：Cussen, Diego; Montero, Juan-Pablo
作者单位：New York University; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Aalto University
摘要：Collusion is deemed unlikely in wholesale markets where upstream suppliers and intermediate buyers privately negotiate discounts off list prices and sales quotas are unfeasible. However, many wholesale markets include both small and large buyers who compete in the retail market. We study the role of publicly announced list prices in this wholesale-retail setting, whether suppliers collude or compete. When suppliers collude, public announcements of list prices extend the possibility of collusio...
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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：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：Priebe, Jan; Rink, Ute; Stemmler, Henry
