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作者：Saltiel, Fernando
作者单位：McGill University; McGill University
摘要：This paper studies the relationship between pre-college skills and gender differences in STEM majors. I use longitudinal data to estimate a generalised Roy model of initial major choices and subsequent graduation outcomes. I recover students' latent math ability, non-cognitive skills and math self-efficacy. High-math-ability women have lower math self-efficacy than men. Mathematical ability and self-efficacy shape the likelihood of STEM enrolment. A lack of math self-efficacy drives women's dr...
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作者：Fabra, Natalia; Llobet, Gerard
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We study a multi-unit auction model in which bidders are privately informed about the maximum number of units they are willing to trade (which we refer to as 'capacity'). No matter how big or small, private information on capacities changes the nature of the equilibrium as compared to when private information is on costs (or valuations). Also, the uniform-price and discriminatory auctions are not revenue equivalent, in contrast to when costs are independently drawn. In particular, with indepen...
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作者：Chen, Liang; Choo, Eugene
作者单位：Yale NUS College; Zhejiang University; Yale NUS College
摘要：Marriage matching markets typically involve heterogenous agents participating in a dynamic, non-stationary environment. These features pose a considerable modelling challenge. In this paper, we develop a new parametric model of dynamic marriage that allows for market non-stationarity using a system of transitionary equilibria. We propose a method to identify and parametrically estimate the model by representing the model equilibrium with a fixed-point mapping. We apply our model to investigate...
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作者：Dueben, Christian; Krause, Melanie
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Helmut Schmidt University; University of Hamburg; Leipzig University
摘要：The emergence of cities in specific locations depends on both geographical features (such as elevation and proximity to rivers) and institutional factors (such as centrality within an administrative region). In this paper, we analyse the importance of these factors at different levels of the urban hierarchy. To do so, we exploit a unique data set on the locations of cities of different status in imperial China from 221 BCE to 1911 CE, a geographically diverse empire with a long history of cent...
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作者：Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth; Tungodden, Bertil
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：A long history in economics going back to Adam Smith has argued that people give primacy to merit-rather than luck-in distributive choices. We provide a theoretical framework formalising the merit primacy effect, and study it in a novel experiment where third-party spectators redistribute from high earners to low earners in situations where both merit and luck determine earnings. We identify a strong and consistent merit primacy effect in the spectator behaviour. The results shed new light on ...
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作者：Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; Raaum, Oddbjorn; Roed, Knut; Rogeberg, Ole
摘要：We study assortative mating of Norwegian parents over five decades and its consequences for offspring outcomes. Parents are characterised by the earnings decile of their parents (the offspring's grandparents) as an indicator of social class. While assortative mating has remained stable across decades, parenthood has become more skewed toward the higher classes. Examining the influence on offspring education and employment, we find that the marginal effect of one parent's class is smaller the h...
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作者：Frisancho, Veronica
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：Relying on a large-scale experiment in Peru, this study evaluates the effects of an in-class intervention on financial literacy and financial behaviour. As soon as the programme is over, treated students record significant financial literacy gains that do not hinder their academic performance. The programme also leads to immediate changes in downstream financial behaviour as measured by financial autonomy and financial savviness. Credit bureau records gathered three years later show that early...
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作者：Bonomo, Marco; Carvalho, Carlos; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Ribon, Sigal; Rigato, Rodolfo
作者单位：Bank of Canada
摘要：We study a unique dataset with comprehensive coverage of daily prices in large multi-product retailers in Israel. Retail stores synchronise price changes around occasional 'peak' days when they reprice around 10% of their products. To assess aggregate implications of partial price synchronisation, we develop a new model in which multi-product firms face economies of scope in price adjustment, and synchronisation is endogenous. Synchronisation of price changes attenuates the average price respo...
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作者：Cubas, German; Juhn, Chinhui; Silos, Pedro
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This paper studies how coordinated work schedules across jobs contribute to the gender wage gap. Using US time diary data, we construct occupation-level measures of coordinated schedules. Higher coordination is associated with higher wages and a larger gender wage gap. Empirically, women with children allocate more time to household care and are penalised for missing work during peak hours. An equilibrium occupational choice model generates a gender wage gap of 8.9%; most of the gender wage ga...
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作者：Melander, Eric; Miotto, Martina
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Charles University Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Czech Academy of Sciences; University of Birmingham
摘要：The New Poor Law reform of 1834 induced dramatic and heterogeneous reductions in welfare spending across English and Welsh counties. Using the reform in a difference-in-differences instrumental variables strategy, we document a robust negative relationship between the generosity of welfare provision and criminal activity. Results are driven by non-violent property crimes and are stronger during months of seasonal agricultural unemployment, highlighting the particularly criminogenic combination...
