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作者：Einio, Elias
作者单位：VATT Institute for Economic Research
摘要：To what extent is economic success determined by with whom individuals interact socially? We tackle this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment in the Finnish conscription. Our research design is based on the alphabetization of dorms, which is shown to induce as good as random variation in peer composition. Dormmates from high-income families have a positive impact on earnings, with the largest effect among individuals from high-income families. For them, a one standard deviat...
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作者：Artiles, Miriam
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
摘要：Is ethnic diversity good or bad for economic development? Most studies find corrosive effects. This paper shows that historical exposure to economic exchange can mitigate these effects in the long run. I collect data from a natural experiment of Peru's colonial history: the forced resettlement of native populations in the sixteenth century. Where the resettlement concentrated ethnically diverse populations with a history of internal crop exchange, contemporary populations perform better system...
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作者：Anderson, Michael L.; Dobkin, Carlos; Gorry, Devon; Tseng, Hung-Fu
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Clemson University; Kaiser Permanente
摘要：Influenza causes substantial illness among children. RCTs demonstrate that the influenza vaccine reduces active-surveillance-detected influenza but have insufficient samples to examine outcomes such as health care provider visits. This study documents that children whose well-child visits occur when the seasonal influenza vaccine is broadly available are 23.4 pp more likely to be vaccinated than children whose visits do not. Using large administrative health care datasets, we leverage this vac...
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作者：Borker, Girija; Eeckhout, Jan; Luke, Nancy; Mini, Shantidani; Munshi, Kaivan; Swaminathan, Soumya
作者单位：The World Bank; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Pompeu Fabra University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Christian Medical College & Hospital (CMCH) Vellore; Yale University; Communaute d'universites et etablissements de Toulouse (Comue); Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
摘要：Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference, in which parents desire a male heir, and daughter aversion, in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls. Our model incorporates both mechanisms, providing microfoundations, based on the organization of the marriage institution, for daughter aversion. Marital matching, sex selection, and dowries are jointly determined in the model, whose implications are tested on a representative sample of rural ...
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作者：Kumon, Yuzuru
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：Despite well-developed economic institutions, premodern Japan, 1600-1868, had among the lowest real wages according to available estimates, around half those in preindustrial England. However, many Japanese peasants owned land, unlike their mostly landless English counterparts, due to institutional differences in land inheritance. Using a Malthusian model, I show that this greater landownership equality paradoxically led to Japan's lower wages and GDP per capita. Evidence from Japanese village...
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作者：Rivera, Roman
作者单位：Georgetown University
摘要：This paper studies the effect of pretrial electronic monitoring (EM) relative to both pretrial release and pretrial detention (jail). EM often involves a defendant wearing an electronic bracelet, which aims to reduce pretrial misconduct at a low cost. Using the quasi-random assignment of bond court judges, I estimate the effect of EM versus release and EM versus detention on pretrial misconduct, case outcomes, future recidivism, and aggregate total costs. Results indicate that EM reduces overa...
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作者：Buyukeren, Berkeren; Makarin, Alexey; Xiong, Heyu
作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder's impact on college students using its initial marketing focus on Greek organizations for identification. We show that the full-scale launch of Tinder led to a sharp, persistent increase in sexual activity, but with little corresponding impact on the formation of long-term relationships or relationship quality. Dating outcome inequality, especially among men, rose, alongside rates o...
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作者：De Neve, Jan-Walter; Moshoeshoe, Ramaele; Bor, Jacob
作者单位：California State University System; San Diego State University; Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Boston University
摘要：Evidence on school-entry age impacts in lower-income countries is limited. We assess how school starting age affects human capital development in Lesotho, exploiting an enrollment age threshold. Children who start primary school at older ages overcome initial skill deficits as they progress. They are more likely to remain in school, spend less time on economic and household activities, and obtain substantially higher total years of schooling. In adulthood they are more likely to have professio...
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作者：Bryan, Kevin A.; Hoffman, Mitchell; Sariri, Amir
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Would workers apply to better firms if they were more informed about firm quality? Collaborating with 26 science-based start-ups, we create a custom job board and invite business school alumni to apply. The job board randomizes across applicants to show coarse expert ratings of all start-ups' science and/or business model quality. Making ratings visible strongly reallocates applications toward higher-rated firms. This reallocation holds, restricting to high-quality workers. Treatments operate ...
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作者：Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Philadelphia; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of citywide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century. Our analysis finds that higher segregation reduces upward mobility for Black children from households across the income distribution and White children from low-income households. Moreover, segregation lowers ac...
