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作者：Dinkelman, Taryn
作者单位：Princeton University; Princeton University
摘要：This paper estimates the impact of electrification on employment growth by analyzing South Africa's mass roll-out of electricity to rural households. Using several new data sources and two different identification strategies (an instrumental variables strategy and a fixed effects approach), I find that electrification significantly raises female employment within five years. This new infrastructure appears to increase hours of work for men and women, while reducing female wages and increasing ...
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作者：Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa
作者单位：Santa Clara University
摘要：We conduct a random-assignment experiment to investigate whether positive affect impacts time preference, where time preference denotes a preference for present over future utility. Our result indicates that, compared to neutral affect, mild positive affect significantly reduces time preference over money. This result is robust to various specification checks, and alternative interpretations of the result are considered. Our result has implications for the effect of happiness on time preferenc...
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作者：Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; Nikiforakis, Nikos
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Monash University
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作者：Curcuru, Stephanie E.; Thomas, Charles P.; Warnock, Francis E.; Wongswan, Jon
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; University of Virginia; National Bureau of Economic Research; Thammasat University
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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...
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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...
