2011

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• The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa AI翻译
  作者：Nunn, Nathan; Wantchekon, Leonard
  作者单位：Harvard University; New York University
  摘要：We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical data on slave shipments by ethnic group, we find that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade are less trusting today. Evidence from a variety of identification strategies suggests that the relationship is causal. Examining causal mechanisms, we show that most of t...
• Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies AI翻译
  作者：Azzimonti, Marina
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• The Diffusion of Energy Efficiency in Building AI翻译
  作者：Kok, Nils; McGraw, Marquise; Quigley, John M.
  作者单位：Maastricht University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• A Labor Supply Elasticity Accord? AI翻译
  作者：Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J.
  作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; New York University
• Falsifiability AI翻译
  作者：Olszewski, Wojciech; Sandroni, Alvaro
  作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：We examine Popper's falsifiability within an economic model in which a tester hires a potential expert to produce a theory. Payments are contingent on the performance of the theory vis-a-vis data. We show that if experts are strategic, falsifiability has no power to distinguish scientific theories from worthless theories. The failure of falsification in screening informed and uninformed experts motivates questions on the broader concepts of refutation and verification. We demonstrate an asymme...
• Recessions, Retirement, and Social Security AI翻译
  作者：Coile, Courtney C.; Levine, Phillip B.
  作者单位：Wellesley College
• Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Neighborhood Gentrification, and Environmental Justice: Evidence from Restricted Access Census Block Data AI翻译
  作者：Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Timmins, Christopher
  作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Duke University
• Flexible Estimation of Treatment Effect Parameters AI翻译
  作者：MaCurdy, Thomas; Chen, Xiaohong; Hong, Han
  作者单位：Stanford University; Yale University
• School Desegregation, School Choice, and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race AI翻译
  作者：Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Lutz, Byron F.
  作者单位：Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
  摘要：This paper examines the residential location and school choice responses to the desegregation of large urban public school districts. We decompose the well documented decline in white public enrollment following desegregation into migration to suburban districts and increased private school enrollment and find that migration was the more prevalent response. Desegregation caused black public enrollment to increase significantly outside of the South, mostly by slowing decentralization of black h...