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作者：Larreguy, Horacio; Marshall, John; Snyder, James M., Jr.
作者单位：Harvard University; Columbia University
摘要：Malfeasance in local governments is common in developing democracies. Electoral accountability could mitigate such malfeasance, but may require media market structures that incentivise profit-maximising local media to report on incumbent malfeasance. We test this claim in Mexico, leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in the pre-election release of municipal audits revealing misallocated spending and access to broadcast media. We find that each additional local media station amplifies voter ...
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作者：Cooper, David J.; Hamman, John R.; Weber, Roberto A.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of East Anglia; University of Zurich
摘要：We investigate 'social credibility', a leader's ability to convince followers that conditions are favourable and that others will follow the leader's advice. To do so, we study an experimental joint venture with three key properties: returns are uncertain, investments are complements, and investment is often more beneficial for the leader than the followers. The leader has private information about investment returns and can facilitate coordination through cheap-talk recommendations. We find t...
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作者：Hardy, Morgan; Kagy, Gisella
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Vassar College
摘要：This article considers market-level contributors to the well-documented gender profit gap among micro-entrepreneurs. We combine data from a garment-making firm census and market research survey in Ghana, uncovering a gender gap in the market-size-to-firm ratio and observing disproportionate self-reports of 'not enough customers' from female owners. We develop a simple model and discuss implications of potential gender differences in demand constraints. As experimental corroboration, we show th...
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作者：Corak, Miles
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Intergenerational income mobility varies significantly across Canada, with the 266 Census Divisions in the 1986 Census clustering into five non-contiguous regions. Nine complementary indicators are calculated for each Census Division using administrative data on a cohort of men and women born between 1963 and 1970. Collectively these indicators underscore the importance of simultaneously examining different dimensions of intergenerational mobility and also show that higher mobility is most str...
