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作者：Besley, Timothy; Dann, Christopher; Dray, Sacha
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Stanford University; The World Bank
摘要：This article explores the relationship between economic growth and trust in government using variation in GDP growth experienced over a lifetime since birth. We assemble a newly harmonized global data set across 11 major opinion surveys, comprising 3.3 million respondents in 166 countries since 1990. Exploiting cohort-level variation, we find that people who have experienced higher GDP growth are more prone to trust their governments, with larger effects found in democracies. Higher-growth exp...
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作者：Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Southampton; Monash University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：This article investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluster-randomized field experiment involving over 3,300 households across 121 multiethnic villages in Bangladesh. We find that a documentary film, designed to humanize the ethnic-minority Santals and evoke empathy among the ethnic majority Bengalis, increased the ethnic majority's prosociality toward minorities, though the strength of the evidence varies b...
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作者：Costa-Ramon, Ana; Slotwinski, Michaela; Schaede, Ursina; Brenoe, Anne Ardila
作者单位：University of Zurich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Neuchatel; University of Basel; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Tufts University
摘要：Does information about the long-run financial costs of reduced labor supply increase mothers' working hours? We document descriptively that long-term financial factors are not top of mind when mothers decide on their employment level. Moreover, a substantial share of women holds overly optimistic expectations about pension receipt and wage growth under part-time work. In a large-scale field experiment in Switzerland, we randomly assign mothers working part-time as teachers to receive objective...
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作者：Sangani, Kunal
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Empirical studies find that the pass-through of input cost changes to prices is incomplete: a 10% increase in costs causes downstream prices to rise less than 10%, even at long horizons. Using microdata from gas stations, food products, and manufacturing industries, I find that incomplete pass-through in percentages often disguises complete pass-through in levels: a $1/unit increase in input costs leads to $1/unit higher downstream prices. Pass-through appears incomplete in percentages due to ...
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作者：Chiovelli, Giorgio; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias; Sequeira, Sandra
作者单位：Universidad de Montevideo; Brown University; University of London; London Business School; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study the effect of conflict-induced displacement on human capital and occupational shifts, focusing on the Mozambican civil war (1977-1992), during which millions of civilians were forced to flee to the countryside, cities, and neighboring countries. Reconstructing the wartime mobility histories of the surviving population, we examine the consequences of multiple displacement trajectories in a unified framework. First, we characterize the education and sectoral employment of the universe o...
