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作者：Carrell, Scott; Sacerdote, Bruce
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; Dartmouth College
摘要：We present evidence from a series of field experiments in college coaching/mentoring. We find large impacts on college attendance and persistence, but only in the treatments where we use an intensive boots-on-the-ground approach to helping students. Our treatments that provide financial incentives or information alone do not appear to be effective. For women, assignment to our mentoring treatment yields a 15 percentage point increase in the - college-going rate while treatment on the treated e...
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作者：Haggag, Kareem; McManus, Brian; Paci, Giovanni
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; New York University
摘要：We study learning by doing by New York City taxi drivers, who have substantial discretion over their driving strategies and receive compensation closely tied to their success in finding customers. In addition to documenting learning overall by these entrepreneurial agents, we exploit our data's breadth. to investigate the factors that contribute to driver improvement across a variety of situations. New drivers lag further behind experienced drivers when in difficult situations. Drivers benefit...
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作者：Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; Shotland, Marc
作者单位：University of Delaware
摘要：Using a randomized field experiment in India, we evaluate the effectiveness of adult literacy and parental involvement interventions in improving children's learning. Households were assigned to receive either adult literacy (language and math) classes for mothers, training for mothers on how to enhance their children's learning at home, or a combination of the two programs. All three interventions had significant but modest impacts on childrens math scores. The interventions also increased mo...
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作者：Barsbai, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; Trebesch, Christoph
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW); Paris School of Economics; University of Munich; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and - individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the aftermath of the Russian crisis of 1998 strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade, eventually contributing to the fall of the last Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels. Ide...
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作者：Gaggl, Paul; Wright, Greg C.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of California System; University of California Merced
摘要：We study the short-run causal effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption on employment and wage distribution. We exploit a natural experiment generated by a tax allowance on ICT investments and find that the primary effect of ICT is to complement nonroutine, cognitive-intensive work. We also find that the ICT investments led to organizational changes that were associated with increased inequality within the firm and we discuss our findings in the context of theories of I...
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作者：Leon, Gianmarco; Miguel, Edward
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper exploits an unusual transportation setting to generate some of the first revealed preference value of a statistical life (VSL) estimates from a low-income setting. We estimate the trade-offs individuals are willing to make between mortality risk and cost as they travel to and from the international airport in Sierra Leone. The setting and original dataset allow us to address some typical omitted variable concerns, and also to compare VSL estimates for travelers from different countr...
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作者：Barnhardt, Sharon; Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini
作者单位：Duke University; Harvard University
摘要：A housing lottery in an Indian City provided winning slun dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, winners report improved housing but no change in tenure security, family income, or human capital. Winners also report increased isolation from family and caste networks and reduced informal insurance. We observe significant program exit: 34 percent of winners never took up subsidized housing and 32 percent eventually exited. Our result...
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作者：Barwick, Panle Jia; Pathak, Parag A.; Wong, Maisy
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper documents uniformity in real estate commission rates offered to buyers' agents using 653,475 residential listings in eastern Massachusetts from 1998-2011. Properties listed with lower commission rates experience less favorable transaction outcomes: they are 5 percent less likely to sell and take 12 percent longer to sell. These adverse outcomes reflect decreased willingness of buyers' agents to intermediate low commission properties (steering), rather than heterogeneous seller prefe...
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作者：Coffman, Lucas C.; Featherstone, Clayton R.; Kessler, Judd B.
摘要：We show that the provision of social information influences a high-stakes decision and this influence persists over time. In a field experiment involving thousands of admits to Mach For America, those told about the previous year's matriculation rate are more likely to accept a teaching job, complete training, start, and return a second year. To show robustness, we develop a simple theory that identifies subgroups where we expect larger treatment effects and find our effect is larger in those ...
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作者：Shayo, Moses; Zussman, Asaf
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：How persistent are the effects of conflict on bias toward co-ethnics? What are the channels of persistence? We employ a measure of ethnic bias derived from decisions made by Israeli Arab and Jewish judges to study the levels and determinants of bias during the 2000-2004 conflict and its aftermath (2007-2010). Despite the fall in violence, we find no evidence of a general attenuation in bias. Furthermore, bias remains positively associated with past intensity of violence in different localities...
