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作者：Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, Krzysztof
作者单位：University of Rochester; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Davis; Emory University
摘要：Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes as the program matured and scaled up. We observe growing benefits (higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and suspension rates) to students attending pub-lic schools with more preprogram private school options as the pro-gram matured. Effects are particular...
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作者：Lu, Fangwen; Sun, Weizeng; Wu, Jianfeng
作者单位：Peking University; Central University of Finance & Economics; Fudan University; Fudan University
摘要：By exploiting the large quantity and rich variety of special economic zones (SEZs) in China, this study investigates how such zones affect human capital investment. Results show that SEZs significantly increase the local high school enrollment rate, but the impact varies across zone types: technology-oriented zones encourage education, while export-led zones discourage it. The increased job opportunities and wage premiums inside SEZs for employees with high school education increase high schoo...
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作者：Dupas, Pascaline; Nhlema, Basimenye; Wagner, Zachary; Wolf, Aaron; Wroe, Emily
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Adventist Health Services; AdventHealth; Mass General Brigham; RAND Corporation; Northwestern University; Harvard University; Harvard University Medical Affiliates; Brigham & Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School
摘要：Data from an 18-month randomized trial show large and sustained impacts on water purification and child health of a program pro-viding monthly coupons for free water treatment solution to house-holds with young children. The program is more effective and much more cost effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute free chlorine to households during routine monthly visits. This is because only 40 percent of households use free chlo-rine, targeting through CHWs is worse tha...
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作者：Nagaraj, Abhishek; Reimers, Imke
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Cornell University
摘要：The free digital distribution of creative works could cannibalize demand for physical versions, but it could also boost physical sales by enabling consumers to discover the original work. We study the impact of the Google Books digitization project on the market for physical books. We find that digitization significantly boosts the demand for physical versions and provide evidence for the discov-ery channel. Moreover, digitization allows independent publish-ers to introduce new editions for ex...
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作者：Li, Cher Hsuehhsiang; Zafar, Basit
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Using administrative data from a large public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes made by instructors. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are prevalent and that male students are more likely to ask for regrades on the intensive margin. We corroborate the gender differences in regrade requests in an incentivized controlled experiment: we find that males have a higher willingness...
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作者：Gray, Colin; Leive, Adam; Prager, Elena; Pukelis, Kelsey; Zaki, Mary
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Work requirements are common in US safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individu-als. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earn-ings with a regression discontinuity design, we find robust evidence that work requirements increase program exits by 23 percentage points (64 percent) among incumbent participants. Overall program partici-pation among adults wh...
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作者：Blonz, Joshua A.
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要：In many settings, misaligned incentives and inadequate monitoring lead employees to take self-interested actions. This paper identifies and quantifies the costs of this principal-agent problem in the context of an energy efficiency appliance replacement program. I show that contractors (agents) hired by the electric utility (the principal) increase their compensation by intentionally misreporting program data to authorize the replacement of nonqualified refrigerators. I estimate that each unqu...
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作者：Christensen, Peter; Keiser, David A.; Lade, Gabriel E.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Macalester College
摘要：In April 2014 Flint, Michigan switched its drinking water supply from the Detroit water system to the Flint River as a temporary means to save $5 million. Over 18 months it was revealed that the switch exposed residents to dangerous levels of lead, culminating in an emergency declaration in October 2015. This paper examines the impact of this crisis on the Flint housing market. The value of Flint's housing stock has fallen by $520 million to $559 million despite over $400 million in remediatio...
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作者：Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Einio, Elias; Martin, Ralf; Nguyen, Kieu-Trang; Van Reenen, John
作者单位：Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; VATT Institute for Economic Research; Imperial College London; Northwestern University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We present causal evidence of R&D tax incentives' positive impacts on a firm's own innovation and that of its technological neighbors. Exploiting a change in size-based eligibility thresholds for R&D tax relief, we implement a Regression Discontinuity Design using administrative data. We find significant effects of tax relief on (quality-adjusted) patenting (and R&D) that persist up to seven years, and evidence of R&D spillovers on the innovation of technologically close firms. We can rule out...
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作者：Fischer, Brett
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper provides causal evidence that greater minority repre-sentation on school boards translates into greater investment in minority students. Focusing on California school boards, I instru-ment for minority (specifically, Hispanic) representation using ran-dom ballot ordering and leverage new data from a statewide capital investment program to capture intradistrict resource allocations. I show that Hispanic board members invest the marginal dollar in high-Hispanic schools within their di...
