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作者：Arrow, Kenneth J.; Bilir, L. Kamran; Sorensen, Alan
作者单位：Stanford University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Do information differences across US physicians contribute to treatment disparities? This paper uses a unique new dataset to evaluate how changes in physician access to a-decision-relevant drug database affect prescribing decisions. Our results indicate doctors using the reference have a significantly greater propensity to prescribe generic drugs, are faster to begin prescribing new generics, and pre-scribe a more diverse set of products. These results are consistent with database users respon...
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作者：Fiagenberg, Benjamin
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：This paper estimates the impact of the US-Mexico border fence on US-Mexico migration by exploiting variation in the timing and location of US government investment in fence construction. Using Mexican survey data and data I collected on fence construction, I find that construction in a municipality reduces migration by 27 percent for municipality residents and 15 percent for residents of adjacent municipalities. In addition, construction reduces migration by up to 35 percent from non-border mu...
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作者：Sekhri, Sheetal
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：This paper provides evidence that graduates of elite public institutions in India have an earnings advantage in the labor market even though attending these colleges has no discernible effect on academic outcomes. Admission to the elite public colleges is based on the scores obtained in the Senior Secondary School Examinations. I exploit this feature in a regression discontinuity design. Using administrative data on admission and college test scores and an in-depth survey, I find that the sala...
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作者：Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof; Piraino, Patrizio
作者单位：Middlebury College; Stellenbosch University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：We show that reference letters from former employers alleviate information frictions in a-low-skill labor market, improving applicant screening and gender equity. A resume audit study finds that using a reference letter in the application increases callbacks by 60 percent. Women drive the effect. Letters are effective because they provide valuable information about workers' skills that employers use to select applicants of higher ability. A second experiment, which encourages job seekers to ob...
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作者：Lindner, Attila; Reizer, Balazs
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：We estimate the effect of front-loading unemployment benefit payments on nonemployment duration and reemployment wages. Exploiting a sharp change in the path of benefits for those who claimed unemployment benefits after November 1, 2005 in Hungary, we show that nonemployment duration fell by two weeks, while reemployment wages rose by 1.4 percent as a result of front-loading. We show that these behavioral responses were large enough to offset the mechanical cost increase of the unemployment in...
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作者：Porter, Catherine; Serra, Danila
作者单位：Lancaster University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students' enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage points. This is a large effect, given that only 9 percent of women were majoring in economics at ...
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作者：Rossin-Slater, Maya; Wust, Miriam
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Copenhagen
摘要：We study the impact of preschool targeted at children from low-income families over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with an infant health intervention. Using Danish administrative data with variation in the timing of program implementation over the period 1933-1960, we find lasting benefits of access to preschool on adult educational attainment, earnings, and survival beyond age 65. We also show that children of women exposed to pre-school obtain more educati...
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作者：Gerber, Alan; Hoffman, Mitchell; Morgan, John; Raymond, Collin
作者单位：Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：During the 2010 gubernatorial elections, we elicit voter beliefs about the closeness of the election before and after showing different polls, which, depending on treatment, indicate a close or not-close race. Subjects update their beliefs in response to polls, but overestimate the probability of a very close election. However, turnout is unaffected by beliefs about election closeness. A follow-up RCT, conducted during the 2014 gubernatorial elections at much larger scale, also points to littl...
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作者：Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W.; Yurukoglu, Ali
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Dartmouth College; Stanford University
摘要：This paper empirically examines recently declassified tariff bargaining data from the GATT/WTO. Focusing on the Torquay Round (1950-1951), we document stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations that suggest a lack of strategic behavior among the participating governments and an important multilateral element to the bilateral bargains. We suggest that these features can be understood as emerging from a tariff bargaining forum that emphasizes the GATT pillar...
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作者：Arcidiacono, Peter; Ellickson, Paul; Mela, Carl Frederick; Singleton, John D.
作者单位：Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Rochester; Duke University; University of Rochester
摘要：Coupling weekly grocery transactions with the exact location and opening date of Walmarts over an 11-year period, we examine how Supercenter entry affects prices and revenues at incumbent supermarkets. We find that entry within 1 mile of an incumbent causes a sharp 16 percent drop in revenue, a competitive effect that decays quickly with distance. Surprisingly, despite large cross-sectional differences in supermarket prices by exposure to Walmart, our findings also indicate that Supercenter en...
