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作者：Garcia-Brazales, Javier
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：Can sustained exposure to females persistently modernise gender attitudes? I study the impact of female peers on gender roles, perceived relative gender ability and gender-related behaviours up to nine years later. For this, I exploit two-decade longitudinal information on cognition, attitudes, aspirations and expectations of a close-to-nationally-representative cohort of Vietnamese primary schoolers exogenously allocated to peers. I find that being in classes with a higher share of females we...
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作者：Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics; Southern Methodist University; University of Chicago
摘要：Using a multi-sector dynamic spatial integrated assessment model, we argue that a carbon tax introduced by the European Union and rebated locally can, if not too large, increase the size of Europe's economy by concentrating economic activity in its high-productivity non-agricultural core and by incentivising immigration to the European Union. The resulting change in the spatial distribution of economic activity improves global efficiency and welfare. A carbon tax introduced by the United State...
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作者：Angerer, Silvia; Glatzle-Rutzler, Daniela; Mimra, Wanda; Rittmannsberger, Thomas; Waibel, Christian
作者单位：University of Innsbruck; heSam Universite; ESCP Business School; Technical University of Munich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：In this paper, we experimentally investigate the effect of public consumer ratings on market outcomes in credence goods markets. Unlike search or experience goods, consumers cannot evaluate all dimensions of trade for credence goods, which may inhibit the information and reputation-building value of public rating systems. We implement a market in which experts have an informational advantage over consumers with respect to the appropriate service level. The rating system takes the form of a fiv...
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作者：Storesletten, Kjetil; Zhao, Bo; Zilibotti, Fabrizio
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Peking University
摘要：We document that business-cycle dynamics change systematically over the course of development. In countries with large but shrinking agricultural sectors, aggregate employment is uncorrelated with GDP, and agricultural employment falls during booms, even as agricultural labour productivity rises. We develop a unified theory of business cycles and structural change that captures these patterns. The theory emphasises the simultaneous decline and modernisation of agriculture, driven by capital ac...
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作者：Bourany, Thomas; Rosenthal-Kay, Jordan
作者单位：Columbia University; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - San Francisco
摘要：To combat global warming, climate policies like carbon taxes, renewable subsidies and carbon tariffs must be implemented to phase out fossil fuel consumption and lower emissions. Who are the winners and losers of such policies? Through a simple integrated assessment model with heterogeneous countries and international trade in goods and energy, we study both the costs of implementing these policies unilaterally and the local costs and global gains of international policy cooperation. To do so,...
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作者：Berg, Petter; Romero, Mauricio; Singh, Abhijeet
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
摘要：We study the relative productivity of private and public institutions at the preschool and primary school levels using panel data from 215 villages in Tamil Nadu. Private preschools show higher test score value-added in math and language (${\sim} 0.59 \!-\!0.74\sigma\!$) and outperform government providers in nearly all villages. This productivity difference explains 60% of the socioeconomic test score gap before school entry. These results contrast starkly with primary schooling, where we fin...
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作者：Mansfield, Richard K.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：This paper examines how spatial frictions that differ among heterogeneous workers and establishments shape the geographic and demographic incidence of alternative local labour demand shocks, with implications for the appropriate level of government at which to fund local economic initiatives. Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data featuring millions of job transitions facilitate estimation of a rich two-sided labour market assignment model. The model generates simulated forecasts of man...
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作者：Gneezy, Uri; Serra-Garcia, Marta
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Is truth believed to be more persuasive than falsehood? This paper explores this question using a series of experiments. First, a survey experiment reveals that participants consistently believe that the persuasive power of truthful messages exceeds that of lies. Second, two laboratory experiments, in which senders record truthful and false video messages about news events, show that senders mistakenly believe that their truthful messages will be more believable. Even when incentivised to lie,...
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作者：Clay, Karen; Schmick, Ethan
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Marquette University
摘要：This paper investigates the long-run impacts of an early-life agricultural shock on Black and White sons in the US South. The boll weevil, one of the most destructive agricultural pests in American history, decreased cotton production and resulted in substantial changes to the Southern economy. The impact of this shock on children who were born before and after its arrival is not a priori obvious; it could be positive or negative depending on whether children born after the shock experienced b...
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作者：[Anonymous]
摘要：This paper develops a framework to integrate demographic change into climate policy analysis. We build an overlapping-generations climate-economy model with a rich demographic structure, allowing population growth and survival probabilities to vary over time. These features endogenously determine the age composition of society and shape aggregate preferences. A central result of our framework is an aggregation result: despite the heterogeneity across cohorts, the planner's problem can be recas...
