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作者：Carranza, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Rankin, Neil
作者单位：The World Bank; Duke University; University of Oxford; Stellenbosch University
摘要：We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving workseekers assessment results that they can credibly share with firms increases workseekers' employ-ment and earnings and better aligns their skills, beliefs and search strategies. Giving workseekers assessment results that they cannot easily share with firms has similar effects on beliefs and search, but smaller effects on employme...
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作者：Hussam, Reshmaan; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory; Zahra, Fatima
作者单位：Harvard University; The World Bank; University of Chicago; New York University
摘要：Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal esti-mate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. We involve 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. Employment raises psychosocial well-being sub-stantially more than cash alone, and 66 percent of the employed are willing to forgo cash payments to continue w...
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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：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：Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, B. Douglas; Lusardi, Annamaria
作者单位：University of Zurich; George Washington University
摘要：We examine methods for evaluating interventions designed to improve decision-making quality when people misunderstand the consequences of their choices. In an experiment involving financial education, conventional outcome metrics ( financial literacy and directional behavioral responses) imply that two interventions are equally beneficial even though only one reduces the average severity of errors. We trace these failures to violations of the assumptions embedded in the conventional metrics. W...
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作者：Jones, Charles I.
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
摘要：In many models, economic growth is driven by people discovering new ideas. These models typically assume either a constant or grow-ing population. However, in high income countries today, fertility is already below its replacement rate: women are having fewer than two children on average. It is a distinct possibility that global pop-ulation will decline rather than stabilize in the long run. In stan-dard models, this has profound implications: rather than continued exponential growth, living s...
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作者：Dinerstein, Michael; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yannelis, Constantine
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Queensland; Monash University; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in nonemployment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on teachers' assignments and their students' outcomes, and quasi-random variation from the teacher assignment process in Greece. We find significant losses to output, as a one-year increase in time without formal ...
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作者：Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Gertler, Paul J.; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Nichter, Simeon
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various pernicious consequences. To examine how reduced vulnerability affects citizens' participation in clientelism, we employ two exogenous shocks to vulnerability. First, we designed a randomized control trial to constructed residential water cisterns in drought-prone areas of vulnerability significantly decreases requests for private goods from politicians, especially among citize...
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作者：Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey
作者单位：Bocconi University; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Tel Aviv University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US colleges. Our analysis couples data on student mental health around the years of Facebook's expansion with a generalized difference-in-differences empirical strategy. We find that the rollout of Facebook at a college had a negative impact on student mental health. It also increased the likelihood with which students r...
