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作者：Bhargava, Saurabh; Loewenstein, George
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Herr, Jane Leber
作者单位：Harvard University
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作者：Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：In a large-scale controlled trial in collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian incumbent mayor, we administered (randomized) messages about the candidate's valence or ideology. Informational treatments affected both actual votes in the precincts and individual vote declarations. Campaigning on valence brought more votes to the incumbent, but both messages affected voters' beliefs. Cross-learning occurred, as voters who received information about the incumbent also updated their ...
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作者：Ales, Laurence; Kurnaz, Musab; Sleet, Christopher
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This paper considers the normative implications of technical change for tax policy design. A task-to-talent assignment model of the labor market is embedded into an optimal tax problem. Technical change modifies equilibrium wage growth across talents and the substitutability of talents across tasks. The overall optimal policy response is to reduce marginal income taxes on low to middle incomes, while raising those on middle to high incomes. The reform favors those in the middle of the income d...
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作者：Kaas, Leo; Kircher, Philipp
作者单位：University of Konstanz; University of Edinburgh
摘要：We develop and analyze a labor market model in which heterogeneous firms operate under decreasing returns and compete for labor by posting long-term contracts. Firms achieve faster growth by offering higher lifetime wages, which allows them to fill vacancies with higher probability, consistent with recent empirical findings. The model also captures several other regularities about firm size, job flows, and pay, and generates sluggish aggregate dynamics of labor market variables. In contrast to...
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作者：Chetty, Raj
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者：Palmer, Karen; Walls, Margaret
作者单位：Resources for the Future
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作者：Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
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作者：Sialm, Clemens; Starks, Laura; Zhang, Hanjiang
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Nanyang Technological University
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作者：Hansen, Benjamin
作者单位：University of Oregon; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：I test the effect of harsher punishments and sanctions on driving under the influence (DUI). In this setting, punishments are determined by strict rules on blood alcohol content (BAC) and previous offenses. Regression discontinuity derived estimates suggest that having a BAC above the DUI threshold reduces recidivism by up to 2 percentage points (17 percent). Likewise having a BAC over the aggravated DUI threshold reduces recidivism by an additional percentage point (9 percent). The results su...
