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作者：Bursztyn, Leonardo; Fujiwara, Thomas; Pallais, Amanda
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Harvard University
摘要：Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long hours on a real-stakes placement questionnaire whe...
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作者：Kleiner, Andreas; Moldovanu, Benny
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Bonn
摘要：We analyze sequential, binary voting schemes in settings where several privately informed agents have-single-peaked preferences over a finite set of alternatives, and we focus on robust equilibria that do not depend on assumptions about the players' beliefs about each other. Our main results identify two intuitive conditions on binary voting trees, ensuring that sincere voting at each stage forms an ex post perfect equilibrium. In particular, we uncover a strong rationale for content-based age...
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作者：Johnson, William R.; Markel, Kelly
作者单位：University of Virginia
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作者：Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
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作者：Blattman, Christopher; Jamison, Julian C.; Sheridan, Margaret
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We show that a number of noncognitive skills and preferences, including patience and identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally engaged men and randomized one-half to eight weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy designed to foster self-regulation, patience, and a noncriminal identity and lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated over ...
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作者：Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krueger, Miriam; Zubanov, Nikolay
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Cologne; Deutsche Bundesbank; University of Konstanz
摘要：In a field experiment with a retail chain (1,300 employees, 193 shops), randomly selected sales teams received a bonus. The bonus increases both sales and number of customers dealt with by 3 percent. Each dollar spent on the bonus generates $3.80 in sales, and $2.10 in profit. Wages increase by 2.2 percent while inequality rises only moderately. The analysis suggests effort complementarities to be important, and the effectiveness of peer pressure in overcoming free-riding to be limited. After ...
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作者：Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B.; Heffetz, Ori; Kimball, Miles
作者单位：University of Southern California; Cornell University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
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作者：Galichon, Alfred; Salanie, Bernard
作者单位：New York University; New York University; Columbia University
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作者：Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant
作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We present evidence that cultural proximity (shared codes, beliefs, ethnicity) between lenders and borrowers increases the quantity of credit and reduces default. We identify in-group lending using dyadic data on religion and caste for officers and borrowers from an Indian bank, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching between them. Having an in-group officer increases credit access and loan size dispersion, reduces collateral requirements, and induces better repayment even after ...
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作者：Bettinger, Eric P.; Fox, Lindsay; Loeb, Susanna; Taylor, Eric S.
作者单位：Stanford University; Mathematica; Stanford University; Harvard University
摘要：Online college courses are a rapidly expanding feature of higher education, yet little research identifies their effects relative to traditional in-person classes. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that taking a course online, instead of in-person, reduces student success and progress in college. Grades are lower both for the course taken online and in future courses. Students are less likely to remain enrolled at the university. These estimates are local average treatment effe...
