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作者：Guo, Naijia; Xia, Xiaoyu; Zhang, Junsen
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Essex; Zhejiang University
摘要：We develop a co-residence model between young adults and the elderly as an application of the Shapley-Shubik-Becker bilateral matching framework. This model captures competition between adult children and between parents and parents-in-law. Using microdata from China, we estimate our model by using a network simulation method to fill in partially unobservable marriage links. We find that our model explains the child-side and parent-side competitions observed in the data better than two alterna...
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作者：Hengel, Erin
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the problem. I find that (i) female-authored papers are 1%-6% better written than equivalent papers by men; (ii) the gap widens during peer review; (iii) women improve their writing as they publish more papers (but men do not); (iv) female-authored papers take longer under review. Using a subjective expected utility framework, I argue that higher writing s...
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作者：Gary, Kathryn; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; Olsson, Mats; Radu, Cristina Victoria; Severgnini, Battista; Sharp, Paul
作者单位：Linnaeus University; Lund University; Linnaeus University; University of Southern Denmark; Copenhagen Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We exploit a large historical shock to the Danish labour market to provide evidence of how restrictions on labour mobility increase monopsony power and thereby reduce wages. By severely limiting the possibility of the rural population to work beyond their place of birth, the reintroduction of serfdom in 1733 aimed to increase monopsony power and secure cheaper labour in the countryside. Using a unique data source based on the archives of estates from the eighteenth century, we test whether ser...
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作者：He, YingHua; Magnac, Thierry
作者单位：Rice University; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole
摘要：A matching market often requires recruiting agents, or 'programmes', to costly screen 'applicants', and congestion increases with the number of applicants to be screened. We investigate the role of application costs: higher costs reduce congestion by discouraging applicants from applying to certain programmes; however, they may harm match quality. In a multiple-elicitation experiment conducted in a real-life matching market, we implement variants of the Gale-Shapley deferred-acceptance mechani...
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作者：Campos, Rodolfo G.; Ignacio Garcia-Perez, J.; Reggio, Iliana
作者单位：Banco de Espana; Universidad Pablo de Olavide; Autonomous University of Madrid
摘要：We develop a novel way of identifying the liquidity and moral hazard effects of unemployment insurance exclusively from how job-finding rates respond to unemployment benefits that vary over an unemployment spell. We derive a sufficient statistics formula for the dynamically optimal level of unemployment benefits based on these two effects. Using a regression kink design (RKD) that simultaneously exploits two kinks in the schedule of unemployment benefits, we apply our method to Spain for the y...
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作者：Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon
作者单位：Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Zurich
摘要：Can culture explain persistent differences in economic activity among individuals and across regions? A novel measure of cultural origin enables us to contrast entrepreneurial activity of individuals located in the same municipality, but whose ancestors lived just on opposite sides of the Swiss language border in the eighteenth century. Individuals with ancestry from the German-speaking side create 20% more firms than those with ancestry from the French-speaking side. These differences persist...
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作者：Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley; Kelly, Sean; Mozenter, Zachary
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：This paper provides evidence of match effects in the teacher labour market by considering how teacher effectiveness varies by classroom composition. We combine random assignment of teachers with rich measures of teaching practices based on a popular teacher-evaluation protocol to overcome endogeneity challenges. We find significant complementarities between teaching practice and classroom composition for maths achievement. We use these estimates to simulate the effects of reallocating classroo...
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作者：Fergusson, Leopoldo; Larreguy, Horacio; Riano, Juan Felipe
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Stanford University
摘要：We develop a model of the politics of state capacity building undertaken by incumbent parties that have a comparative advantage in clientelism rather than in public goods provision. The model predicts that, when challenged by opponents, clientelistic incumbents have the incentive to prevent investments in state capacity. We provide empirical support for the model's implications by studying policy decisions by the Institutional Revolutionary Party that affected local state capacity across Mexic...
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作者：Merilainen, Jaakko
作者单位：Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
摘要：Does political selection matter for policy in representative governments? I use administrative data on local politicians in Finland and exploit exogenous variation generated by close elections to show that electing more high-income, incumbent and competent politicians (who earn more than observably similar politicians) improves fiscal sustainability outcomes, but does not decrease the size of the public sector. I also provide suggestive evidence that electing more university-educated local cou...
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作者：Di Falco, Salvatore; Vieider, Ferdinand M.
作者单位：University of Geneva; Ghent University; Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
摘要：We present incentivised panel data measuring risk preferences of subsistence farmers from across Ethiopia and pair them with rainfall data. We use these data to test the hypothesis that risk preferences may adapt to the environment of the decision maker. We find that rainfall shocks decrease risk tolerance for the same individuals over time. We also find that historical rainfall characteristics and geographical features can explain 40% of the variation in preferences across individuals. The ti...
