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作者：Adams, Abi; Huttunen, Kristiina; Nix, Emily; Zhang, Ning
作者单位：University of Oxford; Aalto University; University of Southern California; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Domestic abuse encompasses a range of damaging behaviors beyond physical violence, including economic and emotional abuse. We analyze the impact of cohabiting with an abusive partner on victims' economic outcomes. In so doing, we highlight the systematic role of economic suppression in such relationships. Using Finnish administrative data and a matched-control event-study design, along with a within-individual comparison of outcomes across relationships, we document three new facts. First, wom...
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作者：Roussille, Nina
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for lower salaries than comparable men. This article studies its role in generating wage inequality, using novel data from an online recruitment platform for full-time engineering jobs: Hired.com. To use the platform, job candidates must post an ask salary, stating how much they want to make in their next job. Firms then apply to candidates by offering them a bid salary, solely based on the candidate's resume and ask salary. If the cand...
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作者：Graeber, Thomas; Roth, Christopher; Zimmermann, Florian
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Cologne; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Bonn
摘要：For many decisions, we encounter relevant information over the course of days, months, or years. We consume such information in various forms, including stories (qualitative content about individual instances) and statistics (quantitative data about collections of observations). This article proposes that information type-story versus statistic-shapes selective memory. In controlled experiments, we document a pronounced story-statistic gap in memory: the average impact of statistics on beliefs...
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作者：Feigenbaum, James; Gross, Daniel
作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University
摘要：In the early 1900s, telephone operation was among the most common jobs for American women, and telephone operators were ubiquitous. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T undertook one of the largest automation investments in modern history, replacing operators with mechanical switching technology in over half of the U.S. telephone network. Using variation across U.S. cities in the timing of adoption, we study how this wave of automation affected the labor market for young women. Although automation elim...
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作者：Augenblick, Ned; Lazarus, Eben; Thaler, Michael
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：When people receive new information, sometimes they revise their beliefs too much, and sometimes too little. We show that a key driver of whether people overinfer or underinfer is the strength of the information. Based on a model in which people know which direction to update in, but not exactly how much to update, we hypothesize that people will overinfer from weak signals and underinfer from strong signals. We then test this hypothesis across four different environments: abstract experiments...
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作者：Munoz, Mathilde
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This article examines the labor market implications of the EU posting policy, a large temporary migration program facilitated by the liberalization of the free provision of services in Europe. Posting allows EU firms to send (post) their employees abroad to export customer-facing services. Combining administrative data and quasi-experimental policy variation, I find that the policy permanently increased total factor mobility in Europe without crowding out traditional migration. This result sug...
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作者：Baron, E. Jason; Doyle, Joseph J., Jr.; Emanuel, Natalia; Hull, Peter; Ryan, Joseph
作者单位：Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York; Brown University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We develop empirical tools for studying discrimination in multiphase systems and apply them to the setting of foster care placement by child protective services. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of two sets of decision-makers-initial hotline call screeners and subsequent investigators-we study how unwarranted racial disparities arise and propagate through this system. Using a sample of over 200,000 maltreatment allegations, we find that calls involving Black children are 55% more likely ...
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作者：Chen, Jiafeng; Roth, Jonathan
作者单位：Harvard University; Brown University
摘要：When studying an outcome Y that is weakly positive but can equal zero (e.g., earnings), researchers frequently estimate an average treatment effect (ATE) for a log-like transformation that behaves like log (Y) for large Y but is defined at zero (e.g., log (1 + Y), arcsinh(Y)). We argue that ATEs for log-like transformations should not be interpreted as approximating percentage effects, since unlike a percentage, they depend on the units of the outcome. In fact, we show that if the treatment af...
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作者：Baqaee, David R.; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：The money metric utility function is an essential tool for calculating welfare-relevant growth and inflation. We show how to recover it from repeated cross-sectional data without making parametric assumptions about preferences. We do this by solving the following recursive problem. Given compensated demand, we construct money metric utility by integration. Given money metric utility, we construct compensated demand by matching households over time whose money metric utility value is the same. ...
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作者：Bauer, Michael D.; Pflueger, Carolin E.; Sunderam, Adi
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
摘要：We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time, in particular over the monetary policy cycle. Forecasters update their perceptions about the Fed's policy rule in response to monetary policy actions, measured by high-frequency interest rate surprises, suggesting that they have ...
