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作者:Akbarpour, Mohammad; Combe, Julien; He, YingHua; Hiller, Victor; Shimer, Robert; Tercieux, Olivier
作者单位:Stanford University; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; ENSAE Paris; Rice University; Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas; University of Chicago; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Paris School of Economics
摘要:For an incompatible patient-donor pair, kidney exchanges often forbid receipt-before-donation (the patient receives a kidney before the donor donates) and donation-before-receipt, causing a double-coincidence-of-wants problem. We study an algorithm, the Unpaired kidney exchange algorithm, which eliminates this problem. In a dynamic matching model, we show that the waiting time of patients under Unpaired is close to optimal and substantially shorter than under widely used algorithms. Using a ri...
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作者:Helensdotter, Ronja
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Gothenburg
摘要:This paper studies the effects of the court-ordered removal of children from home on health, crime, and education. To isolate causal effects, I exploit quasi-random variation in judge assignment together with across-judge variation in the tendency to favour removal in an instrumental variable design. Using a novel data set (N=26,579) based on Swedish court documents that I transcribe and link with detailed register data, I find that court-ordered out-of-home placement has large adverse effects...
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作者:Hosseini, Roozbeh; Kopecky, Karen; Zhao, Kai
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Emory University; University of Connecticut
摘要:Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks significantly reduce earnings. The effect is primarily driven by the participation margin and is concentrated among the less educated and those in poor health. Next, we develop a life-cycle model of labour supply featuring risky and heterogeneous frailty profiles that affect individuals' productivity, likelihood of access to social insurance, disutility from work, mortality, and medical expenses. Individu...
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作者:Huo, Zhen; Takayama, Naoki
作者单位:Yale University; Hitotsubashi University
摘要:We develop a method of solving rational expectations models with dispersed information and dynamic strategic complementarities. In these types of models, the equilibrium outcome hinges on an infinite number of higher-order expectations which require an increasing number of state variables to keep track of. Despite this complication, we prove that the equilibrium outcome always admits a finite-state representation when the signals follow finite ARMA processes. We also show that such a finite-st...
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作者:House, Christopher L.; Proebsting, Christian; Tesar, Linda L.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; KU Leuven
摘要:Unemployment differentials are greater between countries in the euro area than between U.S. states. In both regions, net migration responds to unemployment differentials, though the response is smaller in the euro area compared to the U.S. We use a multi-country DSGE model with cross-border migration to quantify Mundell's hypothesis that labour mobility could substitute for independent monetary policy in a currency union. While not as effective as independent monetary policy, increased labour ...
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作者:Jehiel, Philippe; Weber, Giacomo
作者单位:University of London; University College London; University of Bologna
摘要:Normal-form two-player games are categorized by players into K analogy classes so as to minimize the prediction error about the behaviour of the opponent. This results in Clustered Analogy-Based Expectation Equilibria in which strategies are analogy-based expectation equilibria given the analogy partitions and analogy partitions minimize the prediction errors given the strategies. We distinguish between environments with self-repelling analogy partitions in which some mixing over partitions is...
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作者:Pei, Harry
作者单位:Northwestern University
摘要:I study repeated games with anonymous random matching where players can add or remove signals from their records. The ability to manipulate records introduces monotonicity constraints on players' continuation values, under which sufficiently long-lived players will almost never cooperate. When players' expected lifespans are intermediate, their ability to sustain cooperation depends on (i) whether their actions are complements or substitutes and (ii) whether manipulation takes the form of addi...
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作者:Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco
作者单位:National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Harvard University
摘要:This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for White men and the Black-White gap was larger in counties with higher levels of racial discrimination. The results suggest that political exclusion and discrimination can undermine support for the government during critical times such as war.
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作者:Araujo, Rafael; Costa, Francisco; Sant'Anna, Marcelo
作者单位:Getulio Vargas Foundation; Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要:This paper estimates the Brazilian Amazon's carbon-efficient forest cover-i.e. when farmers internalize the social cost of carbon. We propose a dynamic discrete choice land-use model and estimate it using a panel of land use and carbon stock of 5.7 billion pixels between 2008 and 2017. The business-as-usual scenario implies an inefficient release of 42 billion tons of CO2 in the long run, resulting from the deforestation of an area twice the size of France. A carbon tax that makes farmers inte...
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作者:Ale-Chilet, Jorge; Chen, Cuicui; Li, Jing; Reynaert, Mathias
作者单位:Universidad de los Andes - Chile; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Tufts University; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
摘要:We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider a case of three German automakers colluding to reduce the effectiveness of emissions control technology. By estimating a structural model of the European automobile industry from 2007 to 2018, we find that collusion lowers expected noncompliance penalties substantially and inc...