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作者：Kessler, Judd B.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Providing information about contributions to public goods is known to generate further contributions. However, it is often impossible to provide verifiable information on contributions. Through a large-scale field experiment and a series of laboratory experiments, I show that nonbinding announcements of support for a public good encourage others to contribute, even when actual contributions might not or cannot be made. Providing a way to easily announce support for a charity increases donation...
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作者：Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Agarwal, Nikhil; Pathak, Parag A.
作者单位：Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Coordinated single-offer school assignment systems are a popular education reform. We show that uncoordinated offers in NYC's school assignment mechanism generated mismatches. One-third of applicants were unassigned after the main round and later administratively placed at less desirable schools. We evaluate the effects of the new coordinated mechanism based on deferred acceptance using estimated student preferences. The new mechanism achieves 80 percent of the possible gains from a no-choice ...
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作者：Allen, Robert C.
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; University of Oxford
摘要：A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for nonfood spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank's $1-a-day line because it is (i) clearly related to survival and well being; (ii) comparable across time and space since the same nutritional requirements are used everywhere while nonfood spending is tailored to climate; (iii) adjusts consumption patterns to local prices; (iv) p...
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作者：Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Ostling, Robert
作者单位：New York University; New York University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Stockholm School of Economics; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Northwestern University; Stockholm University
摘要：We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary prizes in a large sample of Swedish lottery players. Winning a lottery prize modestly reduces earnings, with the reduction being immediate, persistent, and quite similar by age, education, and sex. A calibrated dynamic model implies lifetime marginal propensities to earn out of unearned income from -0.17 at age 20 to -0.04 at age 60, and labor supply elasticities in the lower range of previously reported ...
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作者：Fujita, Shigeru; Moscarini, Giuseppe
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Philadelphia; Yale University; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We document in the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1990-2013 that a surprisingly large share of workers return to their previous employer after a jobless spell, and experience very different unemployment and employment outcomes than job switchers. The probability of recall is much less procyclical and volatile than the probability of finding a new employer. We add to a quantitative, and otherwise canonical, search-and-matching model of the labor market a recall o...
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作者：Mas, Alexandre; Pallais, Amanda
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Harvard University
摘要：We employ a discrete choice experiment in the employment process for a national call center to estimate the willingness to pay distribution for alternative work arrangements relative to traditional office positions. Most workers are not willing to pay for scheduling flexibility, though a tail of workers with high valuations allows for sizable compensating differentials. The average worker is willing to give up 20 percent of wages to avoid a schedule set by an employer on short notice, and 8 pe...
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作者：Mrazova, Monika; Neary, J. Peter
作者单位：University of Geneva; University of Oxford; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：We show that any well-behaved demand function can be represented by its demand manifold, a smooth curve that relates the elasticity and convexity of demand. This manifold is a sufficient statistic for many comparative statics questions; leads naturally to characterizations of new families of demand functions that nest most of those used in applied economics; and connects assumptions about demand structure with firm behavior and economic performance. In particular, the demand manifold leads to ...
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作者：Farhi, Emmanuel; Werning, Ivan
作者单位：Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We study cross-country risk sharing as a second-best problem for members of a currency union using an open economy model with nominal rigidities and provide two key results. First, we show that if financial markets are incomplete, the value of gaining access to any given level of aggregate risk sharing is greater for countries that are members of a currency union. Second, we show that even if financial markets are complete, privately optimal risk sharing is constrained inefficient. A role emer...
