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作者：Bandiera, Oriana; Mohnen, Myra; Rasul, Imran; Viarengo, Martina
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Essex; University of London; University College London
摘要：Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that states adopted compulsory schooling laws as a nation-building tool to instil civic values to the culturally diverse migrants during the 'Age of Mass Migration' between 1850 and 1914.. We show the adoption of compulsory schooling laws occurred significantly earlier in states that hosted European mig...
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作者：Zhang, Y. Jane
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Can policy change competitive preferences? This study uses controlled laboratory settings to compare the gender gap in competitive inclination in ethnic groups exposed and exempted from communist institutional reforms that have radically changed the lives of women in China in the areas of marriage, education, work and fertility. Results suggest that exogenously imposed reforms may increase female competitive inclination, although they do not eliminate the gender gap in all cultural contexts. P...
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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：Furlanetto, Francesco; Ravazzolo, Francesco; Sarferaz, Samad
作者单位：Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; BI Norwegian Business School; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：We estimate demand, supply, monetary, investment and financial shocks in a VAR identified with a minimum set of sign restrictions on US data. We find that financial shocks are major drivers of fluctuations in output, stock prices and investment but have a limited effect on inflation. In a second step, we disentangle shocks originating in the housing sector, shocks originating in credit markets and uncertainty shocks. In the extended set-up, financial shocks are even more important and a leadin...
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作者：Pons, Vincent; Liegey, Guillaume
摘要：Improving the political participation immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any statistically significant effect on non immigrants, while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A post-electoral survey reveals that i...
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作者：Aaronson, Daniel; Phelan, Brian J.
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago
摘要：We extend the task based empirical framework used in the job polarisation literature to analyse the susceptibility of low-wage employment to technological substitution. We find that increases in the cost of low-wage labour, via minimum wage hikes, lead to relative employment declines at cognitively routine Occupations but not manually-routine or non routine low-wage occupations. This suggests that low-wage routine cognitive tasks are susceptible to technological substitution. While the short-r...
