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作者：Cornelson, Kirsten
摘要：Can socialising with people who disagree with you change your opinions and reduce political polarisation? I answer this question using a shock that induces us to socialise and discuss politics with a more ideologically diverse set of people: Thanksgiving. Using a sample of American and Canadian survey respondents, I show that people converge towards their families' viewpoints in the week after Thanksgiving, and that this significantly reduces opinion polarisation. People with very left-wing fa...
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作者：Amior, Michael; Manning, Alan
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：If labour markets are competitive, migration can only affect native wages via marginal products. But under imperfect competition, migration may also increase wage mark-downs-if firms have greater monopsony power over migrants than natives, but cannot perfectly wage discriminate. While marginal products depend on relative labour supplies across skill cells, mark-downs depend on migrant concentration within them. This insight can help rationalise empirical violations of canonical migration model...
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作者：Mihm, Benedikt
作者单位：University of Aberdeen
摘要：I develop a signalling model to study how income segregation affects conspicuous consumption when neighbourhood income distributions serve as the reference point for social comparisons, while consumers signal to an outside observer. Consumers can have different attitudes to status: conformists have a greater incentive for conspicuous consumption when they have many well-off neighbours, whereas snobs have a greater incentive when they have few well-off neighbours. Despite the neighbourhood inco...
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作者：Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer; Sarid, Assaf
作者单位：Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Southern Methodist University; University of Haifa
摘要：This paper examines the roots of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits. It advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that geographical characteristics conducive to the emergence of fundamental cultural traits triggered the evolution of complementary linguistic traits, thereby reinforcing their adaptation process. In particular, (i) higher caloric returns to agriculture, which fostered engagement in farming and the evolution of long-term orientation, have been conducive to...
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作者：Davis, C. Austin; Lopez-Pena, Paula; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Wen, Jaya Y.
作者单位：American University; Queens University - Canada; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Deakin University; Harvard University
摘要：Violence against civilians has killed nearly one million people worldwide and displaced millions more over the past three decades. This paper examines the economic forces driving civilian persecution in Myanmar. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we show that violence against civilians increases in rice-suitable townships when rice prices rise, the opposite pattern from that documented in the literature on two-sided conflicts. We argue that large power asymmetries inherent in civilian...
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作者：Fried, Stephie
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - San Francisco
摘要：This paper develops a macro heterogeneous-agent model to quantify the distributional impacts of higher temperatures resulting from climate change in the United States. Households adapt to temperature through two channels: an intensive margin-adjusting energy use for heating and cooling-and an extensive margin-deciding whether to purchase temperature-control equipment such as a heater, air conditioner or heat pump. I estimate the production functions for household heating and cooling from a uni...
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作者：Naguib, Costanza
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：In mid-2016, all journals of the American Economic Association stopped including significance stars in their regression tables. This policy aimed to reduce the emphasis on statistical significance and shift the focus to the broader economic importance of research findings. This study examines the impact of this change on p-hacking and publication bias. I employ a difference-in-difference design, as well as the battery of tests proposed by Elliott et al. (2022b). I find no statistically signifi...
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作者：Belot, Michele; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Edinburgh; Universite Catholique Louvain; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute
摘要：In a randomised field experiment, we provide suggestions about suitable occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform and fed into actual search queries. Effects on 'reaching a cumulative earnings threshold' and 'finding a stable job' are positive, large and are more pronounced for those who are longer unemployed. Treated individuals include more occupations in their search and find more jobs in recomme...
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作者：Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; De Rock, Bram; Ringdal, Charlotte; Vermeulen, Frederic
作者单位：KU Leuven; Columbia University; Universite Libre de Bruxelles
摘要：To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married and monogamous couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocate money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. We propose a novel and simple test to distinguish between cooperative/collective and non-cooperative decision behaviour. We find strong empirical support for the collec...
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作者：Schilling, Pia; Hockel, Lisa Sofie
作者单位：University of Konstanz; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We study the effect of separate preparatory language learning classes on the academic outcomes of primary school-aged immigrant children in Germany compared to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Using administrative panel data and leveraging idiosyncratic assignment of refugee children to neighbourhoods, and, consequently, schools, as well as preparatory class roll out over time, we find that primary school-aged refugees attending a preparatory class perform significantly worse ...
