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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：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：Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; Kim, Minjeong Joyce; Stantcheva, Stefanie; Yang, David Y.
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Harvard University
摘要：We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploy-ing representative surveys involving around 550,000 responses across 15 countries. We document significant heterogeneity across groups in willingness to sacrifice rights: citizens disadvantaged by income, education, or race are less willing to sacrifice rights than their more advantaged peers in every country. Leveraging naturally occurring variation and ex...
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作者：Granzier, Riako; Pons, Vincent; Tricaud, Clemence
作者单位：Uber Technologies, Inc.; Harvard University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：Candidates' placements in polls and past elections can be powerful coordination devices for parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French two-round elections, we show that candidates who place first in the first round are more likely to stay in the race and win than those who placed second. These effects are even larger for ranking second versus third, and also present for third versus fourth. They stem from allied parties agreeing on which candidate should drop out, vo...
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作者：Baseler, Travis
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：In many developing economies, urban workers earn substantially more than rural workers with the same level of education. Why don't more rural workers migrate to cities? I use two field experiments in Kenya to show that low migration is partly due to underestimation of urban incomes, which is sustained by income hiding by migrants. Parents at the origin underestimate their migrant children's incomes by nearly half, and underestimation is greater when a migrant's remittance obligations are high....
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作者：Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：We analyze trends in cultural distances between groups in the United States defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ide-ology. We measure cultural distance as the ability to infer an indi-vidual's group based on media diet, consumer behavior, time use, social attitudes, or newborn's name. Gender difference in time-use decreased between 1965 and 1995 and has remained constant since. Differences in social attitudes by political ideology, and somewhat by income, have increased o...
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作者：Andersen, Asger Lau; Jensen, Amalie Sofie; Johannesen, Niels; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Leth-Petersen, Soren; Sheridan, Adam
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：How much and through which channels do households self-insure against job loss? Combining data from a large bank and from gov-ernment sources, we quantify a broad range of responses to job loss in a unified empirical framework. Cumulated over a two-year period, households reduce spending by 30 percent of their income loss. They mainly self-insure through adjustments of liquid balances, which account for 50 percent of the income loss. Other channels -spousal labor supply, private transfers, hom...
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作者：Zussman, Asaf
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Can the extent of ethnic discrimination change quickly, and what circumstances and mechanisms make such changes possible? I address these questions by using scraped data to study the daily evolution of customer discrimination against Arab doctors in Israel from January 2020 to June 2021. Results show that: (1) the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 led to a dramatic decline in discrimination; (2) the eruption of a wave of ethnic riots in May 2021 had the opposite effect; (3) medi...
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作者：Lawler, Emily C.; Yewell, Katherine G.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：We study the effects of state hospital regulations intended to increase breastfeeding by requiring certain standards of care during the immediate postpartum hospital stay. We find that these regulations significantly increased breastfeeding initiation by 3.8 percentage points (5.1 percent) and the probability of breastfeeding at 3 and 6 months postpartum by approximately 7 percent. We also provide evidence that these breastfeeding-promoting policies significantly increased maternal time spent ...
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作者：Ash, Elliott; Galletta, Sergio
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：This paper shows that partisan cable news broadcasts have a causal effect on the size and composition of budgets in US localities. Using exogenous channel positioning as an instrument for viewership, we show that exposure to the conservative Fox News channel reduces revenues and expenditures. Multiple mechanisms drive these results: Fox News improves election chances for local Republicans, alters politician campaign agendas, and shifts voter policy preferences on fiscal issues. Consistent with...
