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作者：COHEN, F. R. A. N. C. O. I. S.; DECHEZLEPRETRE, A. N. T. O. I. N. E.
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We examine the impact of temperature on mortality in Mexico using daily data over the period 1998-2017 and find that 3.8 percent of deaths in Mexico are caused by suboptimal temperature (26,000 every year). However, 92 percent of weather-related deaths are induced by cold (<12 degrees C) or mildly cold (12-20 degrees C) days and only 2 percent by outstandingly hot days (>32 degrees C). Furthermore, temperatures are twice as likely to kill people in the bottom half of the income distribution. F...
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作者：ZHENG, A. N. G. E. L. A.
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：School choice programs break the link between residential location and school attendance, and should weaken the capitalization of school quality into house prices. For the first time, I quantify the effect of one such program-charter school expansions-across several states using a dataset covering charter entries and house prices. I embed an event study of charter entry into a boundary discontinuity design and find that, on average, school choice decreases the valuation of traditional schools ...
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作者：Agha, Leila; Zeltzer, Dan
作者单位：Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Tel Aviv University
摘要：Pharmaceutical companies market to physicians through individual detailing accompanied by monetary or in-kind transfers. Large compensation payments to a small number of physicians account for most of this promotional spending. Studying US promotional payments and prescriptions for anticoagulant drugs, we investigate how peer influence broadens the payments'reach. Following a compensation payment, prescriptions for the marketed drug increase from both the paid physician and the paid physician'...
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作者：GALASSO, A. L. B. E. R. T. O.; LUO, H. O. N. G.
作者单位：University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
摘要：Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by US suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical implants. Difference-in-difference analyses show that this surge in suppliers' liability risk had a large and negative impact on downstream innovation in medical implants, but it had no significant effect on upstream polymer patenting. Our find...
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作者：HAUSMAN, N. A. O. M. I.; RAMOT-NYSKA, T. A. M. A. R.; ZUSSMAN, N. O. A. M.
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Bank of Israel
摘要：This paper provides evidence on the external benefits of homeownership among low-income populations. A natural experiment in Israel generated large changes in neighborhood homeownership rates while holding fixed the residents and housing stock, two primary sources of bias in traditional estimates. When public housing tenants are given the opportunity to buy their units, buyers increase labor supply. Effects are felt in the neighborhood: when homeownership rises by 10 pp, neighborhood home pric...
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作者：JONES, D. A. M. O. N.; MARINESCU, I. O. A. N. A.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have received a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, this paper shows that the dividend had no effect on employment and increased part-time work by 1.8 percentage points (17 percent). A calibration of microeconomic and macroeconomic effects suggests that the empirical results are consistent with cash stimulating the local economy-a general equilibrium effect. Nontradable sector...
