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作者：Gronqvist, Erik; Ockert, Bjorn; Rosenqvist, Olof
作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University
摘要：Students in East Asian countries dominate international assessments. One possible explanation for their success is the use of Lesson study to enhance teaching practices; a collaborative process where teachers plan, observe, and analyze a lesson together. We evaluate a national teacher development program in Sweden-- Boost for Mathematics--containing core elements of Lesson study. Exploiting the gradual rollout of the program across compulsory schools, we find that it improves teaching practice...
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作者：Bhuller, Manudeep; Khoury, Laura; V. Loken, Katrine
作者单位：University of Oslo; Statistics Norway; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Statistics Norway; University of Bergen
摘要：Understanding whether and in what situations correctional sentencing improves or exacerbates defendants' mental health conditions is important for the design of criminal justice policies. We combine detailed Norwegian data on visits to health care professionals with quasi-experimental designs to measure the impacts of correctional sentences on mental health-related visits. Our causal evidence shows that rehabilitation-oriented sentencing can improve defendants' mental health conditions. We fin...
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作者：Ito, Koichiro; Zhang, Shuang
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Imperial College London
摘要：A central assumption in economics is that consumers properly distinguish fixed cost from variable cost. This assumption is fundamental to various economic theories, including optimal taxation, redistribution, and price discrimination. Using a quasi-experiment in heating price reform in China, we find empirical evidence that is inconsistent with this conventional assumption and more consistent with the schmeduling model in Liebman and Zeckhauser (2004). As we demonstrate its policy implications...
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作者：Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Jayachandran, Seema; Walsh, Mark
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Stanford University
摘要：We evaluate a low-cost intervention designed to boost parents' verbal engagement with infants, which tends to be limited in developing countries. In our randomized experiment, recent or expectant mothers watched a three-minute informational video and received a themed calendar. Six months later, treated mothers reported stronger belief in the benefits of verbal engagement, more frequent parent-infant conversation, and more advanced infant language skills. Treatment effects on objective measure...
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作者：Kessler, Judd B.; Roth, Alvin E.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Stanford University
摘要：The United States has a severe shortage of organs for transplant. Recently-inspired by research based on hypothetical choices-jurisdictions have tried to increase organ donor registrations by changing how the registration question is asked. We evaluate these changes with a novel ield-in-the-lab experiment, in which subjects change their real organ donor status, and with new donor registration data collected from US states. A yes/no frame is not more effective than an opt-in frame, contradicti...
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作者：Brulhart, Marius; Danton, Jayson; Parchet, Raphael; Schlapfer, Jorg
作者单位：University of Lausanne; Swiss National Bank (SNB); Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：We study the distributional effects of local taxes. They turn out to be strikingly progressive. We calibrate a municipality-level structural model with quasi-experimental estimates of taxpayer mobilty by family type. Households with children are found to be less mobile than households without children and to have stronger preferences for locally provided public goods. Combined with capitalization of taxes into housing prices and nonhomothetic housing demand, this implies that the incidence of ...
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作者：Rodemeier, Matthias
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：Are consumers in the marketplace aware of their cognitive limitations? I answer this question in the context of a ubiquitous form of price discrimination: instant rebates that require active redemption. In a large-scale field experiment with a major online retailer, I find that consumers correctly increase demand when the firm offers a redemption reminder, but they fail to reduce demand when the firm increases the hassle required to redeem. Structural estimates reveal that, while consumers are...
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作者：Castell, Laura; Gurgand, Marc; Imbert, Clement; Tochev, Todor
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Paris School of Economics; Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS); Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
摘要：We report on two nationwide experiments with job seekers in France. We first show that a meeting with social services to assess eligibility and help with applications to social benefits increased new benefit take-up by 29 percent. By contrast, an online simulator that gave personalized information on benefit eligibility did not increase take-up. Marginal treatment effects show that individuals who benefit the most from the meetings are the least likely to attend. Overall, without ruling out in...
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作者：Baseler, Travis; Narayan, Ambar; Ng, Odyssia; Roy, Sutirtha Sinha
作者单位：University of Rochester; The World Bank
摘要：This paper studies a new program designed to make food entitlements portable throughout India. We first characterize the state of food entitlement portability using mystery shoppers and surveys of migrants and distributors. We then inform households about the program-and barriers to using it-through a cluster randomized controlled trial. Treatment impacts on beliefs about entitlement portability were initially positive but later turned negative following a general rise in beliefs. These patter...
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作者：Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper uses birth records and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location for early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below-to an above-median-birth-weight location leads to important improvements in child birth weight, with comparable magnitudes to policies targeting maternal health. Place effects are larger for longer-distance moves and more influential for children of non-college...
