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作者:Ruffini, Krista; Sojourner, Aaron; Wozniak, Abigail
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis; Georgetown University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要:COVID symptom screening, a new workplace practice, is already affecting many millions of American workers. As of this writing, 34 states already require, and federal guidance recommends, frequent screening of at least some employees for fever or other symptoms. This paper provides the first empirical work identifying major features of symptom screening in a broad population and exploring the trade-offs employers face in using daily symptom screening. First, we find that common symptom checkers...
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作者:Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
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作者:Pichler, Stefan; Wen, Katherine; Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
作者单位:Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Cornell University; Cornell University; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; University of York - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要:A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state-week level from 2010 to 2018 along with difference-in-differ...
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作者:Gomez, Santiago; Mejia, Daniel; Tobon, Santiago
作者单位:Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad EAFIT
摘要:From the U.S. to Colombia to China, millions of public surveillance cameras are at the core of crime prevention strategies. Yet, we know little about the effects of surveillance cameras on criminal behavior, especially in developing economies. We study an installation program in Medellin and find that the quasi-random allocation of cameras led to a decrease in crimes and arrests. With no increase in the monitoring capacity and no chance to use camera footage in prosecution, these results sugge...
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作者:Peck, Laura R.
作者单位:ABT Associates
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作者:Schochet, Peter Z.
摘要:Job Corps is the nation's largest and most comprehensive career technical training and education program for at-risk youth ages 16 to 24. Using the sample from a large-scale experiment of the program from the mid-1990s, this article uses tax data through 2015 (20 years later) to examine long-term labor market impacts. The study finds some long-term beneficial effects for the older students, with employment gains of 4 percentage points, 40 percent reductions in disability benefit receipt, and 1...
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作者:Fischer, Carolyn; Jacobsen, Grant D.
作者单位:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Ottawa; University of Oregon
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作者:McConnell, Sheena; Schochet, Peter Z.; Rotz, Dana; Fortson, Ken; Burkander, Paul; Mastri, Annalisa
作者单位:Mathematica; Mathematica; Mathematica
摘要:This article examines the effects of intensive services provided by the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs, two of the largest employment service programs in the United States. Intensive services include one-on-one staff assistance-assessments, coaching, career counseling, and service referrals. The study was a randomized controlled trial conducted in 28 randomly selected sites, with the randomization of job seekers to research groups with or without access to intensive services, yielding st...
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作者:Castleman, Benjamin L.; Murphy, Francis X.; Patterson, Richard W.; Skimmyhorn, William L.
作者单位:University of Virginia; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
摘要:The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment that encourages service members to consider the transfer option among a population that includes individuals for whom the transfer benefits are clear and individuals for whom the net-benefits are significantly more ambiguous. We find no impact of a one-time e-mail about benefits transfer among service members for whom we predict considerable ambiguity in the acti...
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作者:Decker, Paul