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作者：Kearney, Melissa S.; Levine, Phillip B.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Wellesley College
摘要：This paper explores the impact of the introduction of the widely viewed MTV reality show 16 and Pregnant on teen childbearing. Our main analysis relates geographic variation in changes in teen - childbearing rates to viewership of the show. We implement an instrumental variables (IV) strategy using local area MTV ratings data from a pre-period to predict local area 16 and Pregnant ratings. The results imply that this show led to a 4.3 percent reduction in teen births. An examination of Google ...
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作者：Caplin, Andrew; Dean, Mark
作者单位：New York University; New York University; Brown University
摘要：Apparently mistaken decisions are ubiquitous. To what extent does this reflect irrationality, as opposed to a rational trade-off between the costs of information acquisition and the expected benefits of learning? We develop a revealed preference test that characterizes all patterns of choice mistakes consistent with a general model of optimal costly information acquisition and identify the extent to which information costs can be recovered from choice data. (JEL D11, D81, D83)
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作者：Burgess, Robin; Jedwab, Remi; Miguel, Edward; Morjaria, Ameet; Padro i Miquel, Gerard
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; George Washington University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University
摘要：Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model, it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy under the same president constrains or exacerbates ethnic favoritism. Across the post-independence period, we find strong evidence of ethnic favoritism: districts that share the ethnicity of the presid...
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作者：Bitler, Marianne; Hoynes, Hilary
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者：Cox, Natalie; Handel, Benjamin; Kolstad, Jonathan; Mahoney, Neale
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Pennsylvania; University of Chicago
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作者：Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; Yuchtman, Noam
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者：Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen; Ravanilla, Nico; Yang, Dean
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Johnson, William R.; Markel, Kelly
作者单位：University of Virginia
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作者：Magnani, Jacopo
作者单位：Xiamen University
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作者：Rossi, Barbara; Sekhposyan, Tatevik
作者单位：Barcelona School of Economics; ICREA; Pompeu Fabra University; Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
