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作者：Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia
作者单位：The World Bank; The World Bank; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：Using newly collected subnational data, this article establishes the within-country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium, a period including the trauma of European colonisation, the drastic reduction of native populations and the imposition of potentially growth inhibiting institutions. High pre-colonial density areas tend to be denser today due to locational fundamentals and agglomeration effects: colonialists established settlements near existing na...
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作者：Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J.
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Chicago
摘要：This article introduces the EJ Feature on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the articles in the Feature in the context of a vibrant literature.
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作者：van Ours, Jan C.; Vollaard, Ben
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Melbourne; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Tilburg University
摘要：We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a policy targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobiliser mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union. We exploit the regulation as source of exogenous variation in use of the anti-theft device. The device reduced car theft by an estimated 40%, accounting for both the protective effect on cars with the device and the displacement effect on cars without the device. T...
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作者：Canzoneri, Matthew; Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris; Diba, Behzad
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of Bern
摘要：Standard business cycle models have difficulties generating large, state-dependent fiscal multipliers. Employing a model of costly financial intermediation based on Curdia-Woodford, we show that fiscal multipliers can be strongly state dependent: fiscal expansions during recessions may lead to multiplier values exceeding two, while similar expansions during economic booms would produce values falling short of unity. This pattern obtains if the spread (the financial friction) is more sensitive ...
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作者：Chiappori, Pierre-Andre
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Comparing income levels across families with different composition is a central issue for most welfare indicators and policies. Currently, the dominant method relies on income-based equivalence scales, which raise a host of theoretical, empirical and normative difficulties. However, a new approach, based on the notion of indifference scales, avoids most of these problems, while leading to empirically tractable estimation methods. I submit that time has come to abandon the traditional view in f...
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作者：Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Wilson, Tanya
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence...
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作者：Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew
作者单位：University of Turin; New York University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We utilise a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the efficacy of unrestricted, restricted, and conditional cash transfer (CCT) systems, and find that an optimally chosen CCT programme is the most cost-efficient way to attain any given gain in average child quality. We explore several design elements for the CCT system and di...
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作者：Breinlich, Holger; Cunat, Alejandro
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Vienna
摘要：We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm in the context of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity and compare them to the post-CUSFTA increases observed in the data. Most models predict increases in measured productivity that are too low by an order of magnitude relative to predicted increases in trade flows. A multi-product firm extension that allows for within-firm productivity increase...
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作者：Bjornland, Hilde C.; Thorsrud, Leif A.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Traditional studies of the Dutch disease do not account for productivity spillovers between the booming resource sector and other domestic sectors. We put forward a simple theory model that allows for such spillovers. We then identify and quantify these spillovers using a Bayesian dynamic factor model. The model allows for resource movements and spending effects through a large panel of variables, while also identifying disturbances to other shocks. Using Australia and Norway as representative...
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作者：Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla
作者单位：Iowa State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Evidence from cross-sectional data reveals a negative relationship between family income and fertility. This article argues that constraints to intergenerational transfers are crucial for understanding this relationship. If parents could legally impose debt obligations on their children to recover the costs incurred in raising them, then fertility would be independent of parental income. A relationship between fertility and income arises when parents are unable to leave debts because of legal,...
