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作者：Del Valle, Alejandro
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Developing economies are not disproportionately exposed to natural disasters , but they experience significantly more deaths. Exploiting a discontinuity in the eligibility rules for Mexico's indexed disaster fund ( Fonden ) , I show that the accelerated reconstruction of public infrastructure can significantly mitigate the mortality impacts of disasters. Fonden's impact is concentrated in areas with medical infrastructure and among conditions responsive to basic and freely available medical ca...
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作者：Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars Hojsgaard
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002 , it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects but also its longer -term consequences and its repeal a decade later. The reform -induced large transfer cuts led to an increase in employment rates , but only in the short run. Overall , the reform increased poverty rates and led to a rise in subsistence crime. Moreover , local demand conditions generate substantial h...
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作者：Fluchtmann, Jonas; Glenny, Anita M.; Harmon, Nikolaj A.; Maibom, Jonas
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evidence on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different job types even among observationally similar men and w...
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作者：Cohen, Francois; Gonzalez, Fidel
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Barcelona; University of Oxford; University of Oxford; Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University
摘要：The correlation between hot weather and crime is well documented but not fully understood. We combine millions of administrative records , victimization surveys on unreported crime, and daily weather information to analyze the effect of temperatures on crime in Mexico. We find that sample selection cannot explain the observed positive correlation between temperature and crime. Moreover , we find that shifts in alcohol consumption and time use on weekends are responsible for 28 percent of tempe...
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作者：Ng, Kevin; Riehl, Evan
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：The returns to selective STEM programs depend on whether students complete these programs , earnings conditional on completion , and counterfactual schooling choices. Much research has focused on only one of these margins, potentially leading to an incomplete picture of the returns to STEM education for students with less academic preparation. Using data from a Colombian university and two empirical strategies , we find less -prepared students have higher earnings returns to selective STEM pro...
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作者：Beach, Brian; Jones, Daniel b.; Twinam, Tate; Walsh, Randall
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Does the presence of underrepresented racial / ethnic groups in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for members of those groups? We study close elections between White and non -White candidates for California city council and the corresponding impact on housing values , a summary statistic for neighborhood investment. We find electing non -White rather than White candidates generates differential home value gains in majority non -White neighborhoods. This result , which is not ex...
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作者：Hong, Long; Mommaerts, Corina
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Health insurance plans increasingly pay for expenses only beyond a large annual deductible. This paper explores the implications of deductibles that reset over shorter timespans. We develop a model of insurance demand between two actuarially equivalent deductible policies in which one deductible is larger and resets annually and the other deductible is smaller and resets biannually. Our model incorporates borrowing constraints , moral hazard , midyear contract switching , and delayable care. C...
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作者：Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; Melitz, Marc J.; Zuber, Thomas
作者单位：Universite PSL; College de France; INSEAD Business School; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National Bureau of Economic Research; European Central Bank; Bank of France
摘要：We decompose the China shock into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: an output shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and an input supply shock affecting firms using inputs similar to the imported Chinese goods. Combining French accounting, customs, and patent information at the firm level, we show that the output shock is detrimental to firms' sales, employment, and innovation. Moreover, this ne...
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作者：Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Posch, Johanna; Steinhauer, Andreas; Zweimueller, Josef
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Princeton University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Analysis Group Inc.; University of Edinburgh; University of Zurich
摘要：Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and childcare, using administrative data covering Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then map these causal estimates into a decomposition framework to compute counterfactual gen...
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作者：Deiana, Claudio; Maheshri, Vikram; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni
作者单位：University of Cagliari; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Collegio Carlo Alberto; University of Turin; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Many countries are facing and resisting strong migratory pressure, fueling irregular migration. In response to mounting deaths in the Central Mediterranean, European nations intensified rescue operations in 2013. We develop a model of irregular migration to identify the effects of these operations. We find that smugglers responded by sending boats in adverse weather and utilizing flimsy rafts, thus inducing more crossings in dangerous conditions and ultimately offsetting intended safety benefi...
