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作者：Falcone, Stefano
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE)
摘要：Although the adoption of third-party policies (i.e., policies targeting non-offending parties to address misconduct by individuals within their control) is growing worldwide, its effect on crime remains unclear. Using Ohio data from 2000 to 2014, this study examines the impact of nuisance ordinances, a policy that penalises landlords for disturbances on their properties. The findings indicate an 18% increase in burglaries and a 28% rise in vehicle thefts. Indirect evidence suggests that these ...
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作者：Martinez, Seung-keun; Pompeo, Monika; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Vakhitov, Volodymyr; Weber, Matthias; Zaika, Nataliia
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Kyiv School of Economics; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of St Gallen; Swiss Finance Institute (SFI)
摘要：In times of war, evacuating civilians from conflict zones is of critical importance to their survival and well-being. However, many people are hesitant to evacuate. While text-based nudges have been studied in other contexts, their effectiveness in encouraging evacuation during armed conflict remains under-explored. We conducted a controlled survey experiment in Ukraine in July 2022-during the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion-by varying the framing and informational content of automated ale...
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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：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：Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David C.
作者单位：Australian National University; Harvard University
摘要：Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behaviour. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05 standard deviations over three years relative to other schools. Reading scores rose by 0.03 standard deviations. Only a small portion of these aggregate benefits can be explained by the direct impact of elimi...
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作者：Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Gertler, Paul J.; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Nichter, Simeon
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? To investigate this question, we focus on a policy that has been widely used across the world: anti-corruption audits. We examine the impact of Brazil's prominent audit programme on clientelism using a novel survey of rural citizens. Randomised audits reduce politicians' provision of campaign handouts, decrease citizens' demands for private goods, and reduce requests fulfilled by politicians. We investigate mechanisms by which audits may reduce cli...
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作者：Wang, Tianxi
作者单位：University of Essex
摘要：Central banks move the interbank borrowing rate through nominal operations that alter the private sector's portfolio of fiat money and government bonds. This paper elucidates a mechanism by which such operations move the interbank rate, thereby affecting bank lending and thence the wide economy. At the core is a liquidity constraint to which bank lending is subject. By affecting the maximal tightness of banks' liquidity constraints, the aggregate portfolio of fiat money and bonds determines th...
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作者：Benhima, Kenza; Blengini, Isabella; Merrouche, Ouarda
作者单位：University of Lausanne; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Applied Sciences & Arts Western Switzerland; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：This paper highlights the disagreement channel of corporate foreign currency borrowing. In our model, if domestic agents have better information than foreign lenders on the state of the economy, foreign currency borrowing might arise if the fundamentals are strong relative to what public signals suggest to foreigners. In these situations, international markets overestimate future currency depreciation, which increases the cost of borrowing in domestic currency. Domestic agents then borrow more...
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作者：Colella, Fabrizio; Maskus, Keith E.; Peri, Alessandro
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Tighter money-laundering regulations in offshore financial havens may inadvertently spur incentives to launder money domestically. Our study exploits regulations targeting financially based money laundering in Caribbean jurisdictions to examine their impact on the creation of front companies and other money-laundering practices in US counties. Predictions on the effects are ambiguous: stricter regulations could either increase domestic money laundering through substitution or decrease it by di...
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作者：Waights, Sevrin
作者单位：Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要：I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impacts of mothers' parental leave benefit amounts on within-couple earnings inequality. I make use of a benefits cap to estimate the causal impacts for high-earning women: a group for which earnings inequality is particularly large. A lower mother's benefit amount results in a reduced gender gap in earnings that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The longer-term i...
