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作者：Stuber, Robert
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
摘要：Why are high monetary payments prohibited for certain goods, thereby causing shortages in their supply? I conduct (i) a framed field experiment with a general population sample and (ii) a survey experiment with this sample and with ethics committees. In the experiment, participants can prohibit others from being offered money to register as stem-cell donors. I document that, whereas the majority of participants do not respond to changes in the incentives (63%) or become more in favour of the o...
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作者：Burchardi, Konrad; de Quidt, Jonathan; Gulesci, Selim; Sulaiman, Munshi
作者单位：Stockholm University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Trinity College Dublin; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University
摘要：We use a cash transfer to relax households' borrowing constraints, then elicit their willingness to pay for a remedial education programme offering tutoring and life skills training. Lottery losers were willing to pay 3,300 Tanzanian Shillings for the programme, which is 7% of per capita monthly expenditures. For those identified at baseline as able to borrow, willingness to pay increases by 3% upon winning a lottery prize of 3,200 Tanzanian Shillings. For those unable to borrow, willingness t...
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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：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...
