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作者：Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas
作者单位：University of Chicago; Charles University Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
摘要：We examine the consequences of survey underreporting of transfer programs for prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We link administrative data for four transfer programs to the CPS to correct its severe understatement of transfer dollars received. Using survey data sharply understates the income of poor households, distorts our understanding of program targeting, and greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs. Using the combined data, the poverty-reducing effect of al...
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作者：Marx, Benjamin; Stoker, Thomas M.; Suri, Tavneet
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Using unique data from one of Africa's largest informal settlements, the Kibera slum in Nairobi, we provide evidence of ethnic patronage in the determination of rental prices and investments. Slum residents pay higher rents and live in lower quality housing (measured via satellite pictures) when the landlord and the locality chief belong to the same ethnicity. Conversely, rental prices are lower, and investments higher when residents and chiefs are co-ethnics. Our identification relies on the ...
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作者：Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof; Carranza, Eliana; Piraino, Patrizio
作者单位：Middlebury College; Stellenbosch University; The World Bank; University of Cape Town
摘要：The paper tests the effects of plan making on job search and employment. In a field experiment with unemployed youths, participants who complete a detailed job search plan increase the number of job applications submitted (by 15 percent) but not the time spent searching, consistent with intention-behavior gaps observed at baseline. Job seekers in the plan-making group diversify their search strategy and use more formal search channels. This greater search efficiency and effectiveness translate...
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作者：Anderson, Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, Claudio Las Heras; Rees, Daniel, I
作者单位：Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago; Central Bank of Chile; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：The US tuberculosis (TB) movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Using newly transcribed mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the effectiveness of public health measures championed by the TB movement, including the establishment of sanatoriums and open-air camps, prohibitions on public spitting and common cups, and requirements that local health officials be notified about TB cases. Our results suggest that these and ot...
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作者：Weiss, Michael J.; Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Gupta, Himani
摘要：Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low This randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased dramatically. The City University of New York's (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive, integrated, 3-year program that has an estimated 18 percentage point effect on 3-year graduation rates, increases 6-year graduation rates by an estimated 10 percentage points, and helps students graduate more quickly. ...
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作者：Park, Sangyoon
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
摘要：Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee's personality. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend. Estimates suggest that a median work...
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作者：Bolhaar, Jonneke; Ketel, Nadine; van der Klaauw, Bas
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：We combine a randomized experiment with administrative data to study the effects of mandatory job search periods in the Dutch welfare system. Job search periods postpone the first welfare benefits payment and encourage applicants to start searching for jobs actively. Job search periods substantially reduce benefits take up. The decline in benefits receipt is permanent, but fully compensated by increased earnings because of higher reemployment rates. We do not find detectable effects on health ...
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作者：Pless, Jacquelyn; van Benthem, Arthur A.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We formalize pass-through over-shifting as a simple yet underutilized test for market power. We apply this test in the market for solar energy. Specifically, we estimate the pass-through of solar subsidies to solar system prices using rich micro-level transaction and subsidy data from California. Buyers of solar systems capture nearly the full subsidy, while there is more-than-complete pass-through to lessees. We conclude that solar markets are imperfectly competitive by ruling out alternative...
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作者：Dee, Thomas S.; Dobbie, Will; Jacob, Brian A.; Rockoff, Jonah
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Columbia University
摘要：We show that the design and decentralized scoring of New York's high school exit exams-the Regents Examinations-led to systematic manipulation of test scores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Exploiting a series of reforms that eliminated score manipulation, we find heterogeneous effects of test score manipulation on academic outcomes. While inflating a score increases the probability of a student graduating from high school by about 17 percentage points, the probability of taking adva...
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作者：Barr, Abigail; Dekker, Marleen; Janssens, Wendy; Kebede, Bereket; Kramer, Berber
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of East Anglia; University of East Anglia; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
摘要：Using a carefully designed series of public goods games, we compare, across monogamous and polygynous households, the willingness of husbands and wives to cooperate to maximize household gains. Compared to monogamous husbands and wives, polygynous husbands and wives are less cooperative, one with another, and co-wives are least cooperative, one with another. The husbands' and wives' behavior in a corresponding series of inter-household games indicates that these differences cannot be attribute...
