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作者：Braakmann, Nils; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wilson, Tanya
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Glasgow
摘要：We provide first evidence that variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely held perception in the United Kingdom that South Asian households store gold jewelry at home. Price movements on the international market for gold exogenously affect the expected gains from burgling these households. Using a neighborhood-level panel on crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighb...
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作者：Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan
作者单位：University of Munich; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by census revisions of population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt within five years to revenue gains, while the adjustment to losses is more rapid. Yet the long-run response is symmetric. The tax response is particularly slow, stretching over more than a decade. Well-known empir...
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作者：Dean, Joshua T.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Noisy workplaces common in low- and middle-income countries can impair workers' cognitive functions. However, whether this lowers earnings depends on the importance of these functions for productivity and whether workers understand these effects. I study these questions with two randomized experiments in Nairobi, Kenya. I find a noise increase of 7 dB reduces productivity in a textile training course by 3 percent, impairs cognitive function, but does not affect effort. I also find willingness ...
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作者：O'connell, Martin; Smith, Kate
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, with an empirical application to sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. We estimate an equilibrium model of the UK drinks market, which we embed in a tax design framework to solve for optimal sugar-sweetened beverage tax policy. Positive price-cost margins for drinks create inefficiencies that lower the optimal rate compared with a perfectly competitive setting. Since profits mainly accrue to the rich, ...
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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 ...
