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作者：Giustinelli, Pamela; Shapiro, Matthew D.
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The paper studies the effect of health on work among older workers by eliciting two- and four -year -ahead subjective probabilities of working under alternative health states. These measures predict work outcomes. Person -specific differences in working probabilities across health states can be interpreted as Subjective ex ante Treatment Effects ( SeaTEs ) in a potential outcomes framework and as taste for work within a discrete choice dynamic programming framework. There is substantial hetero...
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作者：Manduca, Robert; Hell, Maximilian; Adermon, Adrian; Blanden, Jo; Bratberg, Espen; Gielen, Anne C.; van Kippersluis, Hans; Lee, Keunbok; Machin, Stephen; Munk, Martin D.; Nybom, Martin; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Rahman, Sumaiya; Sirnio, Outi
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Stanford University; University of Surrey; University of Bergen; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Uppsala University; Statistics Canada
摘要：We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly used copula and marginals approximation methods perform well across countries in our sample, and the greatest challenges to their accuracy stem not from assumptions about relative mobility rates over time but from the use of nonrepresentative ...
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作者：Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and show that increasing the father's temporal flexibility-and thereby his ability to be present at home together with the mother-reduces the incidence of maternal postpartum health complications. Our results suggest that mothers bear part of the burden from a l...
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作者：Deutschmann, Joshua W.; Lipscomb, Molly; Schechter, Laura; Zhu, Jessica
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Virginia; University of Virginia; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We run a randomized controlled trial coupled with lab -in -the -field social network experiments in urban Dakar. Decision spillovers and health externalities play a large role in determining uptake of sanitation technology, with decision spillovers being largest among households that don't receive significant subsidies. There is no evidence that the spillovers are explained by social forces in general, nor by specific social mechanisms such as learning from others, social pressure, or reciproc...
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作者：Foy, Morgan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper examines whether the civil service system protected state bureaucrats from political interference following a recall petition against the governor of Wisconsin. I find that most classified workers , who were covered by the state civil service laws , were paid equally by signing status following the public disclosure of the petition list. Conversely , signers in the unclassified service , a smaller set of government positions , were paid about 3 percent less annually relative to nons...
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作者：Giacobino, Helene; Huillery, Elise; Michel, Bastien; Sage, Mathilde
作者单位：Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; Nantes Universite
摘要：We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial, we find that after three years of implementation, the intervention led to large and positive effects. It halved both dropout and marriage rates and increased girls' and their parents' aspirations. Importantly, there is no displacement effect detrimental to the education and marriage status of no...
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作者：Gerardino, Maria Paula; Litschig, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank; National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; University of Zurich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Public sector audits are key to state capacity. However, they can create unintended distortions. Regression discontinuity analysis from Chile shows that audits lowered the use of auctions for public procurement, reduced supplier competition, and increased the likelihood of small, local, and incumbent firms winning contracts. Looking inside the black box of the audit process reveals that relative to comparable direct contracts, auctions underwent more than twice as many checks and led to twice ...
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作者：Figlio, David; Ozek, Umut
作者单位：University of Rochester; RAND Corporation
摘要：School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study Florida policy that places middle school students who score below proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below cutoff receive more educational resources, but they are also placed in classes that are more segregated by race, socioeconomic status, and prior achievement. Increased tra...
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作者：Holz, Justin; Jimenez-Duran, Rafael; Laguna-Muggenburg, Eduardo
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Bocconi University
摘要：Thirty-four states prohibit price increases during emergencies, and individuals take costly actions to report violators. We measure experimentally the willingness to pay to report sellers who increase prices of personal protective equipment. Over 75 percent of subjects pay to report, even if others are willing to buy at those prices. We argue that reports contain information about a desire to prevent or punish third -party transactions at unfair or illicit prices. Reports are partially driven ...
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作者：Kankanhalli, Gaurav; Kwan, Alan; Merkley, Kenneth
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Innovative firms must trade off disclosing to investors and maintaining secrecy from competitors. We study this trade-off in a sample of IP licenses mandatorily disclosed by US public firms, whose contents can be temporarily redacted. Hand classifying the redacted information, we find that firms with valuable IP in competitive markets redact IP information more often. Markets react positively to the redaction of IP information, consistent with theoretical predictions rationalizing a separating...
