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作者：Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro
作者单位：University of Basque Country; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要：In two-stage elimination math contests, participants from four different age groups compete to pass from stage 1 to stage 2 and later to be among the winners. Although female participants have higher maths grades at school the gender gap reverses in the two stages of the contests. More importantly, following the same individual participant across different stages, we find that the gender gap in performance increases from stage 1 to stage 2. The increase in female underperformance is attributed...
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作者：Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Hurst, Erik; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study how manufacturing decline and local housing booms contributed to changes in labour market outcomes during the 2000s, focusing on the distributional consequences across geographical areas and demographic groups. Using a local labour markets design, we estimate that manufacturing decline significantly reduced employment between 2000 and 2006, while local housing booms increased employment. These results suggest that housing booms 'masked' employment declines that would have occurred ear...
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作者：Koenig, Felix; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John; Bagaria, Nitika
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Princeton University; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Charles River Associates
摘要：The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients (relative to unemployment insurance recipients) into jobs. In the long run, the policy raised exits off diasability benefits by 10% and left unemployment outflows roughly unchanged, consistent with (i) beneficial effects of reorganising welfare offices for both groups, and (ii) a shift in bureaucrats' efforts towards getting disability benefit recipients into jobs relative to those on unemploym...
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作者：Born, Benjamin; Mueller, Gernot J.; Schularick, Moritz; Sedlacek, Petr
作者单位：Frankfurt School Finance & Management; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen; University of Bonn; University of Oxford
摘要：Economic nationalism is on the rise, but at what cost? We study this question using the unexpected outcome of the Brexit referendum vote as a natural macroeconomic experiment. Employing synthetic control methods, we first show that the Brexit vote has caused a UK output loss of 1.7% to 2.5% by year-end 2018. An expectations-augmented VAR suggests that these costs are, to a large extent, driven by a downward revision of growth expectations in response to the vote. Linking quasi-experimental ide...
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作者：Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Southern Denmark; Sapienza University Rome; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Estimates of historical workers' annual incomes suffer from the fundamental problem that they are inferred from day wage rates without knowing how many days of work day-labourers undertook per year. We circumvent the problem by building an income series based on the payments made to workers employed by the year rather than by the day. Our data suggest that earlier annual income estimates based on day wages overestimate medieval labour incomes but underestimate labour incomes during the Industr...
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作者：Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Jappelli, Tullio; Pistaferri, Luigi; van Rooij, Maarten
作者单位：University of Naples Federico II; Tilburg University; European Central Bank; University of Naples Federico II; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; European Central Bank; De Nederlandsche Bank NV
摘要：We use the responses of a representative sample of Dutch households to survey questions that ask how much their consumption would change in response to unexpected, transitory income shocks (positive or negative). The questionnaire also distinguishes between relatively small income changes (a one-month increase or drop in income), and relatively larger ones (equal to three-months' income). The results are broadly in line with models of intertemporal choice with precautionary saving, borrowing c...
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作者：Eso, Peter; Wallace, Chris
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Oxford
摘要：This article studies how the presence of concealable hard evidence affects the timing of agreement and the size and distribution of surplus in bargaining. A buyer and a seller receive randomly arriving, verifiable, but concealable evidence about the value of a tradable good. Each party discloses individually favourable information but conceals signals that benefit the other side, giving rise to mutual suspicion; the seller repeatedly posts prices valid for one period. In the leading case of in...
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作者：Harrison, Teresa D.; Seim, Katja
作者单位：Drexel University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We investigate the importance of nonprofit tax exemptions to the structure of local fitness markets and to the nonprofit's decision to complement fitness offerings with youth programming. We estimate an equilibrium model of market structure of nonprofit and for-fitness centres. Our results suggest that the two ownership types serve different customer bases. We predict that a revocation of tax exemptions would lower nonprofit entry by 26%, leaving for-profit entry unaffected. This decline in no...
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作者：Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Jiang, Boqian; Shifa, Abdulaziz B.
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Pretoria
摘要：African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger executive constraints. Using micro-data from anglophone and francophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa, we find that anglophone citizens are less likely to identify themselves in national terms (relative to ethnic terms). To address endogeneity concerns, we utilise regression discontinuity by focusing on observations near anglophone-francopho...
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作者：Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; Gambetta, Diego
作者单位：University of Bologna; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Max Planck Society; European University Institute; University of Oxford
摘要：The sharp gap in development between the North and the South of Italy represents a paradigmatic case of persistent within-country disparities. The evidence suggests that this gap could depend on a difference in the ability to cooperate. We investigate experimentally three possible sources of this difference, and find that Northerners and Southerners share the same pro-social preferences, but differ both in their belief about cooperativeness and in the aversion to social risk, respectively, mor...
