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作者：Bursztyn, Leonardo; Gonzalez, Alessandra L.; Yanagizawa-Drott, David
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Zurich
摘要：We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men. Correcting these beliefs increases men's (costly) willingness to help their wives search for jobs. Months later, wives of men whose beliefs were corrected are more likely to have applied and interviewed for a job outside the home. In a recruitment experiment with a local company, randomly informing women about ...
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作者：Angeletos, George-Marios; Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Bern
摘要：We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the business-cycle propagation mechanism that best describes the data, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium-scale variety. Our findings support the existence of a main business-cycle driver but rule out the following candidates for this role; technology or other shocks that map to TFP movements; news about future productivity; and inflationary demand shock...
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作者：Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, Mounu; Teso, Edoardo
作者单位：University of Chicago; Universidad del Rosario; Northwestern University
摘要：In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employer-employee data on the universe of public employees in Brazil over 1997-2014, and on a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races, we establish three main findings. First, political connections are a key and quantitatively large determin...
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作者：Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A.
作者单位：W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University; W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
摘要：We estimate the magnitudes of reduced earnings, work hours, and wage rates of workers displaced during the Great Recession using linked employer-employee panel data from Washington state. Displaced workers' earnings losses occurred mainly because hourly wage rates dropped at the time of displacement and recovered sluggishly. Lost employer-specific premiums explain only 17 percent of these losses. Fully 70 percent of displaced workers moved to employers paying the same or higher wage premiums t...
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作者：Levine, David K.; Mattozzi, Andrea
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：We introduce a model where social norms of voting participation are strategically chosen by competing political parties and determine voters' turnout. Social norms must be enforced through costly peer monitoring and punishment. When the cost of enforcement of social norms is low, the larger party is always advantaged. Otherwise, in the spirit of Olson (1965), the smaller party may be advantaged. Our model shares features of the ethical voter model and it delivers novel and empirically relevant...
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作者：Andersen, Steffen; Campbell, John Y.; Nielsen, Kasper Meisner; Ramadorai, Tarun
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Imperial College London; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：We build an empirical model to attribute delays in mortgage refinancing to psychological costs inhibiting refinancing until incentives are sufficiently strong; and behavior, potentially attributable to information-gathering costs, lowering the probability of household refinancing per unit time at any incentive. We estimate the model on administrative panel data from Denmark, where mortgage refinancing without cash-out is unconstrained. Middle-aged and wealthy households act as if they have hig...
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作者：Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon; Majlesi, Kaveh
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Zurich; Harvard University; Lund University; Monash University
摘要：Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior to the divisive 2016 (15 presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China, we find that trad...
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作者：Calvano, Emilio; Calzolari, Giacomo; Denicolo, Vincenzo; Pastorello, Sergio
作者单位：University of Bologna; University of Bologna; University of Bologna; European University Institute; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Bologna
摘要：Increasingly, algorithms are supplanting human decision-makers in pricing goods and services. To analyze the possible consequences, we study experimentally the behavior of algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence (Q-learning) in a workhorse oligopoly model of repeated price competition. We find that the algorithms consistently learn to charge supracompetitive prices, without communicating with. one another. The high prices are sustained by collusive strategies with a finite phase of punis...
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作者：Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim, I; Ozyurt, Selcuk; Singh, Niharika
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Pomona College; Georgetown University; Harvard University; York University - Canada
摘要：We assess whether financing can help private schools, which now account for one-third of primary school enrollment in low- and middle-income countries. Our experiment allocated unconditional cash grants to either one (L) or all (H) private schools in a village. In both, arms, enrollment and revenues increased, leading to above market returns. However, test scores increased only in H schools, accompanied by higher fees, and a greater focus on teachers. We provide a model demonstrating that mark...
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作者：Ganong, Peter; Noel, Pascal
摘要：We exploit variation in mortgage modifications to disentangle the impact of reducing long-term obligations with no change in short-term payments (wealth), and reducing short-term payments with no change in long-term obligations (liquidity). Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences research designs with, administrative data measuring default and consumption, we find that principal reductions that increase wealth without affecting liquidity have no effect, white maturity exte...
