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作者：Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberte, Jean-William
作者单位：Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Calgary
摘要：Though racial affirmative action (AA) policies are widespread in college admissions, evidence on their effects before college is limited. We study a US Supreme Court ruling that reinstated AA in three states. Using nationwide SAT data, we separately identify positive effects of AA for Whites and underrepresented minorities. Using Texas administrative data, we find that AA narrowed racial gaps in grades, attendance, and college applications. Improvements in minorities' precollege human capital ...
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作者：Grosfeld, Irena; Madinier, Etienne; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
作者单位：Paris School of Economics; University of London; King's College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to propaganda on state TV, resulting in a switch of some of its audience to independent TV. Municipalities with access to independent TV continued to follow a long-term secularization trend, while municipalities with access only to state TV experi...
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作者：Patault, Berengere; Lenoir, Clemence
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Ecole Polytechnique
摘要：Expanding their customer base is crucial for firms to grow. This paper leverages sales managers' job-to-job transitions to better understand how buyer-seller relationships form. Combining unique French firm-to-firm trade data with matched employer-employee data, we perform an event study analysis that exploits the timing of sales managers' transitions from one firm to another for identification. We find recruiting a sales manager increases by 36 percent the probability to export to the buyers ...
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作者：de la Parra, Brenda Samaniego; Bujanda, Leon Fernandez
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Bank of Mexico
摘要：We estimate the effect of increasing the cost of informal jobs on formal firms' and workers' outcomes. We combine administrative records and household surveys and exploit exogenous variation in the cost of informality generated by over 480,000 random worksite ily increase the probability of being formalized at the inspected firm, but separations also rise. For formal workers, we find temporary increases in the probability of remaining formally employed at the inspected firm and in monthly wage...
