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作者：Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi
作者单位：RAND Corporation; Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Gothenburg; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：This article uses an original data set of more than 3,000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made women eligible to serve on English juries. Results based on a pre-post research design imply that the inclusion of women had little effect on overall conviction rates but significantly impacted conviction rates on particularly female salient cases: sex offences, violen...
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作者：Bai, Jie; Jayachandran, Seema; Malesky, Edmund J.; Olken, Benjamin A.
作者单位：Harvard University; Northwestern University; Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This article tests whether firm growth reduces corruption, using data from over 10,000 Vietnamese firms. We employ instrumental variables based on growth in a firm's industry in other provinces within Vietnam and in China. We find that firm growth reduces bribes as a share of revenues. We propose a mechanism for this effect whereby government officials' decisions about bribes are modulated by inter-jurisdictional competition. This mechanism also implies that growth reduces bribery more for mor...
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作者：Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Using a newly constructed longitudinal data set of 30,000 Italian individuals, we analyse whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major and labour market outcomes. To identify causation, we exploit random assignment of classmates within school-cohort. We generally do not find significant effects of peer gender on college choice and following outcomes. Only male students graduating from classes with a very large majority of male peers were more li...
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作者：Cameron, Lisa; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Australian National University; Peking University
摘要：This article uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. We find that China's high sex ratios are associated with greater risk-taking, greater impatience and greater neuroticism amongst males. These underlying behavioural impacts explain some part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex ratio increases crime, however, is the direct pressure on men to appear financially a...
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作者：Evans, George W.; Guesnerie, Roger; McGough, Bruce
作者单位：University of Oregon; University of St Andrews; Paris School of Economics; Universite PSL; College de France
摘要：Within the standard real business cycle model, we examine issues of expectational coordination on the unique rational expectations equilibrium. We show sensitivity of agents' plans and decisions to their short-run and long-run expectations is too great to trigger eductive coordination in a world of rational agents who are endowed with knowledge of the economic structure and contemplate the possibility of small deviations from equilibrium: eductive stability never obtains. We conclude adaptive ...
