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作者：Polyakova, Maria
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：I take advantage of regulatory and pricing dynamics in Medicare Part D to explore interactions among adverse selection, inertia, and regulation. I first document novel evidence of adverse selection and switching frictions within Part D using detailed administrative data. I then estimate a contract choice and pricing model that quantifies the importance of inertia for-risk sorting. I find that in Part D switching costs help sustain an-adversely-selected equilibrium. I also estimate that active-...
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作者：Hilger, Nathaniel G.
作者单位：Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：How do parental layoffs and their large attendant income losses affect children's long-term outcomes? This question has proven difficult to answer due to the endogeneity of parental layoffs. I overcome this problem by exploiting the timing of 7 million fathers' layoffs when children are age 12-29 in administrative data for the United States. Layoffs dramatically reduce family income but only slightly reduce college enrollment, college quality, and early career earnings. These effects are consi...
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作者：Bjornerstedt, Jonas; Verboven, Frank
作者单位：KU Leuven; KU Leuven
摘要：We analyze a large merger in the Swedish market for analgesics (painkillers). The merging firms raised prices by 40 percent, and some outsiders raised prices by more than 10 percent. We confront these changes with predictions from a merger simulation model. With basic supply side assumptions, the models correctly or moderately underpredict the merging firms' price increase. However, they predict a larger price increase for the smaller firm, which was not the case in practice, and they underpre...
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作者：Shertzer, Allison; Twinam, Tate; Walsh, Randall P.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell
摘要：Zoning policies can have marked impacts on the spatial distribution of people and land use, yet there is little systematic evidence on their origin. Investigating the causes of these regulations is complicated by the fact that land use and zoning have been co-evolving for nearly a century. We employ a novel approach to overcome this challenge, studying the factors underpinning the introduction of comprehensive zoning in Chicago. We find evidence consistent with a precursor to exclusionary zoni...
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作者：Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; Heise, Lori
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Istituto degli Innocenti; University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
摘要：Using a randomized experiment in Ecuador, this study provides evidence on whether cash, vouchers, and food transfers targeted to women and intended to reduce poverty and food insecurity also affected intimate partner violence. Results indicate that transfers reduce controlling behaviors and physical and/or sexual violence by 6 to 7 percentage points. Impacts do not vary by transfer modality, which provides evidence that transfers not only have the potential to decrease violence in the short-te...
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作者：Fadlon, Itzik; Laird, Jessica; Nielsen, Torben Heien
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Harvard University; University of Copenhagen
摘要：This paper studies how firms set contributions to employer provided 401(k)-type pension plans. Using a reform that decreased the subsidy to contributions to capital pension accounts for Danish workers in the top income tax bracket, we provide strong evidence that employers' contributions are based on their employees' savings preferences. We find an immediate decrease in employer contributions to capital accounts, whose magnitude increased in the share of employees directly affected by the refo...
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作者：Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Bocconi University; Bocconi University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Fiscal rules are laws aimed at reducing the incentive to accumulate debt, and many countries adopt them to discipline local governments. Yet, their effectiveness is disputed because of commitment and enforcement problems. We study their impact applying a quasi-experimental design in Italy. In 1999, the central government imposed fiscal rules on municipal governments, and in 2001 relaxed them below 5,000 inhabitants. We exploit the before/after and discontinuous policy variation, and show that ...
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作者：Autor, David H.; Duggan, Mark; Greenberg, Kyle; Lyle, David S.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
摘要：Combining administrative data from the US Army, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Social Security Administration, we analyze the effect of the VA's Disability Compensation (DC) program on veterans' labor force participation and earnings. We study the 2001 Agent Orange decision, a unique policy change that expanded DC eligibility for Vietnam veterans who served in theater but did not expand eligibility to other veterans of this era, to assess the causal effects of DC enrollment. We estimate t...
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作者：Lu, Yao; Slusky, David J. G.
作者单位：Analysis Group Inc.; University of Kansas
摘要：We examine the impact of women's health clinic closures on women's preventive care use in Texas and Wisconsin using a unique policy context, data on clinic street addresses, and confidential respondent ZIP codes from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. From a within-ZIP-code analysis, we conclude that an increase of 100 miles to the nearest clinic results in a decrease in the annual utilization rate of a clinical breast exam by 11 percent, a mammogram by 18 percent, and a Pap test ...
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作者：Cage, Julia; Rueda, Valeria
摘要：This article investigates the long-term consequences of the printing press in the nineteenth century sub-Saharan Africa on social capital nowadays. Protestant missionaries were the first to import the printing press and to allow the indigenous population to use it. We build a new geocoded dataset locating Protestant missions in 1903. This dataset includes, for each mission station, the geographic location and its characteristics, as well as the printing-, educational-, and health-related inves...
