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作者：Cavenaile, Laurent; Roldan-Blanco, Pau; Schmitz, Tom
作者单位：University of Toronto; University Toronto Scarborough; Banco de Espana; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：We argue that the recent increases in market concentration and markups are partly due to an 'innovation feedback effect' of globalisation. Lower trade costs increase innovation incentives for global firms. As the winners of the ensuing innovation race increase their technological advantage, concentration and markups rise. We develop an endogenous growth model capturing this effect and calibrate it to US manufacturing data. We find that the increase in trade between 1989 and 2007 raised the agg...
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作者：Autor, David; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Roth, Jeffrey; Wasserman, Melanie
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Rochester; Emory University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys' relative to girls' outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution, precisely where gender gaps are most pronounced. These relationships are not explained by school or neighbourhood factors, or parents' differential treatme...
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作者：Anderberg, Dan; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M.
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Liverpool; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when they cannot directly observe whether a given male partner is of a violent type or not. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The results indicate that uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, di...
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作者：Benhabib, Jess; Spiegel, Mark M.
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作者：Agranov, Marina; Healy, Paul J.; Nielsen, Kirby
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：We design a laboratory experiment to identify whether a preference for randomisation defines a stable type across different choice environments. In games and individual decisions, subjects face 20 simultaneous repetitions of the same choice. Subjects can randomise by making different choices across the repetitions. We find that randomisation does define a type that is predictable across domains. A sizeable fraction of individuals randomise in all domains, even in questions that offer a stochas...
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作者：Norris, Jordan J.; Xiong, Heyu
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Cities are centres of the consumption industries-establishments offering nightlife, food, recreation and retail. However, the city's associated consumer value is inseparable from its geography because residents must travel to consume. By exploiting both the staggered entry across cities and the precise geographic boundary of Uber services for credible identification, we show that the introduction of ride-share technology into a city caused large and significant growth in the consumption indust...
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作者：Hager, Anselm; Hensel, Lukas; Hermle, Johannes; Roth, Christopher
作者单位：Humboldt University of Berlin; Peking University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Cologne
摘要：How does a citizen's decision to participate in political activism depend on the participation of others? We conduct a nationwide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a party survey, we randomly provide canvassers with true information about the canvassing intentions of their peers. When learning that more peers participate in canvassing than previously believed, canvassers significantly reduce both their canvassing intenti...
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作者：Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Brianti, Marco; Schiantarelli, Fabio
作者单位：Boston College; Boston College; Sapienza University Rome; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Alberta
摘要：We study the financial and real effects of political risk shocks for Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Greece between 2008 and 2019. We build an instrument for these shocks using the changes of the sovereign yield spread around political and policy dates, and estimate their effects in the context of local projection. We show that adverse political risk shocks have negative effects on domestic financial markets and in some countries generate spillovers on the spreads of other eurozone economi...
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作者：Hariri, Jacob Gerner; Wingender, Asger Mose
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：Economic modernisation is widely seen as a path to democracy, but the technological progress that drives modernisation also provides rulers with new means of repression. We collect data on the international diffusion of 29 repressive military technologies, and demonstrate that such technologies spread faster from Western Europe and the United States than economic development. Moreover, in a panel of all independent countries in the period 1820-2010, we show that the rapid diffusion of repressi...
