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作者：Rossi, Federico
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：I study how the relative efficiency of high- and low-skill labor varies across countries. Using microdata for countries at different stages of development, I document that differences in relative quantities and wages are consistent with high-skill workers being relatively more productive in rich countries. I exploit variation in the skill premia of foreign-educated migrants to discriminate between two possible drivers of this pattern: cross-country differences in the skill bias of technology a...
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作者：Leshno, Jacob D.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This paper introduces a stylized model to capture distinctive features of waiting list allocation mechanisms. First, agents choose among items with associated expected wait times. Waiting times serve a sim-ilar role to that of monetary prices in directing agents' choices and rationing items. Second, the expected wait for an item is endoge-nously determined and randomly fluctuates over time. We evaluate welfare under these endogenously determined waiting times and find that waiting time fluctua...
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作者：Albert, Christoph; Monras, Joan
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
摘要：We document that international migrants concentrate more in expen-sive cities-the more so, the lower the prices in their origin coun-tries are-and consume less locally than comparable natives. We rationalize this empirical evidence by introducing a quantitative spatial equilibrium model, in which a part of immigrants' income goes toward consumption in their origin countries. Using counter-factual simulations, we show that, due to this novel consumption channel, immigrants move economic activit...
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作者：Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtlaender, Nico
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Exeter; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study the emergence of urban self-governance in the late medie-val period. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, building a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 medieval towns. During the Commercial Revolution (twelfth to thirteenth centuries), many merchant towns obtained Farm Grants: the right of self -gov-erned tax collection and law enforcement. Self-governance, in turn, was a stepping stone for parliamentary representation: Farm Grant towns were much more likely to be su...
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作者：Butters, R. Andrew; Sacks, Daniel W.; Seo, Boyoung
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Recent research shows prices are insensitive to local demand condiWe examine the price response to local cost shocks, including 68 excise tax changes, 76 sales tax changes, and other geographically based cost differences, using data on 35,151 retail stores in 96 multi-state chains. We find local cost shocks are passed through to local prices, with no spillovers to unaffected stores in otherwise affected chains, and at similar rates for national and local chains. Firms adjust local prices accor...
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作者：Marone, Victoria R.; Sabety, Adrienne
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Notre Dame
摘要：We study the welfare effects of offering choice over coverage levels-vertical choice-in regulated health insurance markets. We emphasize that heterogeneity in efficient coverage level is not sufficient to motivate choice. When premiums cannot reflect individuals' costs, it may not be in consumers'best interest to select their efficient coverage level. We show that vertical choice is efficient only if consumers with higher willingness to pay have a higher efficient level of coverage. We investi...
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作者：Baysan, Ceren
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：I evaluate randomly varied neighborhood exposure to information campaigns regarding either executive performance, or increases in executive power, prior to a Turkish referendum on weakening checks and balances on the executive. The campaigns increased voter polarization over the referendum, and subsequently changed party affiliation in national and local elections over the next two years, leading to partisan polarization. My results suggest that, when vot-ers disagree on whether increasing exe...
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作者：Elliott, Matthew; Golub, Benjamin; Leduc, Matthew, V
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Northwestern University; Paris School of Economics
摘要：We model the production of complex goods in a large supply network. Each firm sources several essential inputs through relationships with other firms. Individual supply relationships are at risk of idiosyncratic failure, which threatens to disrupt production. To protect against this, firms multisource inputs and strategically invest to make relationships stronger, trading off the cost of investment against the benefits of increased robustness. A supply network is called fragile if aggregate ou...
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作者：Bosio, Erica; Djankov, Simeon; Glaeser, Edward; Shleifer, Andrei
作者单位：The World Bank; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Peterson Institute for International Economics; Harvard University
摘要：We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring entities. We find that laws and practice are highly correlated with each other across countries, and better practice is correlated with better outcomes, but laws themselves are not correlated with outcomes. A closer look shows that stricter laws correlate with improved outcomes, but only in countries with low public sector capaci...
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作者：Dhar, Diva; Jain, Tarun; Jayachandran, Seema
作者单位：University of Oxford; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Northwestern University
摘要：This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and girls' opportunities. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program made attitudes more supportive of gender equality by 0.18 standard deviations, or, equivalently, converted 16 percent of regressive attitudes. When we resurveyed study participants two years ...
