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作者：Kovalenko, Alina
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; The Brattle Group
摘要：Using administrative panel data on the universe of Texas public school students, I analyze how shocks to local economic conditions affect education and employment decisions. I find that high school students at the bottom of the academic ability distribution worked and earned more in response to the fracking boom and that these earnings gains persisted through ages 24-25 despite the fact that the same students also became less likely to attend classes and graduate from high school. My results s...
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作者：Martinez, Luis R.; Jessen, JoNAS; Xu, Guo
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40 percent of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially under Allied control but was ceded to Soviet control less than two months later. Brief Allied exposure increased protests during the major 1953 uprising. We use novel data on the appointment of loc...
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作者：Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath; Shrestha, Maheshwor
作者单位：Yale University; Deakin University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; The World Bank
摘要：South Asians traveling to richer Asian nations is the world's largest migration corridor. We track down applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis for temporary labor contracts in Malaysia, five years later. Most lottery winners migrate, and migrants' earnings triple. Their remittance raises their fami-ly's standard of living in Bangladesh. The migrant's absence pauses marriage and childbirth and shifts decision-making power toward females. Migration remov...
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作者：Zarate, Roman Andres
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：This paper studies the impact of adolescent peers who are central in their social network on the formation of social skills and aca-demic performance of fellow students. I conduct a novel large-scale field experiment at selective public boarding schools in Peru with two treatments: (i) more socially central versus less socially central peers, and (ii) higher-achieving versus lower-achieving peers. Peer effects are more pronounced for social skills than academic perfor-mance, and both vary by g...
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作者：Geruso, Michael; Layton, Timothy J.; Wallace, Jacob
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; Yale University
摘要：Exploiting the random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we find substantial plan-specific spending effects despite plans having identical cost sharing. Enrollment in the lowest-spending plan reduces spending by at least 25 percent -primarily through quantity reductions-relative to enrollment in the highest-spending plan. Rather than reducing wasteful spending, lower-spending plans broadly reduce medical service provision -including the provision of low-cost, high-valu...
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作者：Lee, Logan M.
作者单位：Grinnell College
摘要：Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison. For many, the transition back to society includes a manda-tory stay in residential housing. I estimate the effect of residential housing on reincarceration using administrative data from Iowa. I address selection into residential housing by instrumenting for res-idential housing assignment with the recommendation rate of ran-domly assigned case managers. I find no evidence that Iowa's costly investment in residential housing...
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作者：Gulino, Giorgio; Masera, Federico
作者单位：University of Rome Tor Vergata; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by study-ing whether corruption scandals affect the propensity of supermar-ket customers to steal while using a self-service checkout system. Crucially, this system allows shoppers to engage in dishonest behav-ior by underreporting the value of their shopping cart. Exploiting data from random audits on shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16 percent after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not d...
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作者：Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Whether immigrants advance in labor markets during their life-times relative to natives is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. We examine linked census records for five cohorts spanning 1850-1940, when immigration to the United States was at its peak. We find a U-shaped pattern of assimilation: immigrants were catching up to natives in the early and later cohorts, but not in between. This change was not due to shifts in immigrants' source countries. Instead, it was rooted i...
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作者：LoPalo, Melissa
作者单位：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：This paper estimates the impact of daily weather on worker produc-tivity by using household survey data to study interviewers. Using data from over 9,000 Demographic and Health Surveys interviewers in 46 countries, I find that interviewers complete 13.6 percent fewer interviews per hour on the hottest and most humid days. Workers maintain the same total output by starting earlier in the day and spending more time on each interview at the expense of spending more hours in the field with the sam...
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作者：Muller, Karsten; Schwarz, Carlo
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Bocconi University
摘要：We study whether social media can amplify antiminority sentiment with a focus on Donald Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early adopters at the South by Southwest festival in 2007, we find that higher Twitter use in a county is associated with a sizeable increase in anti- Muslim hate crimes after the 2016 presidential primaries. Trump's tweets about Muslims predict increases in xenophobic tweets by his followers, cable news mentions of Muslims, ...
