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作者：Soliman, Adam
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper estimates the impact of doctor crackdowns on the quantity demanded of prescription opioids, across-market substitution, and across-product substitution. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the timing and location of administrative actions, I find cracking down on a single doctor decreases county-level opioid dispensing by 10 percent. This decline persists across space and grows over time. Additionally, significant heroin substitution occurs, yet overall overdose mortality de...
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作者：Castell, Laura; Gurgand, Marc; Imbert, Clement; Tochev, Todor
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Paris School of Economics; Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS); Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
摘要：We report on two nationwide experiments with job seekers in France. We first show that a meeting with social services to assess eligibility and help with applications to social benefits increased new benefit take-up by 29 percent. By contrast, an online simulator that gave personalized information on benefit eligibility did not increase take-up. Marginal treatment effects show that individuals who benefit the most from the meetings are the least likely to attend. Overall, without ruling out in...
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作者：Baseler, Travis; Narayan, Ambar; Ng, Odyssia; Roy, Sutirtha Sinha
作者单位：University of Rochester; The World Bank
摘要：This paper studies a new program designed to make food entitlements portable throughout India. We first characterize the state of food entitlement portability using mystery shoppers and surveys of migrants and distributors. We then inform households about the program-and barriers to using it-through a cluster randomized controlled trial. Treatment impacts on beliefs about entitlement portability were initially positive but later turned negative following a general rise in beliefs. These patter...
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作者：Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper uses birth records and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location for early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below-to an above-median-birth-weight location leads to important improvements in child birth weight, with comparable magnitudes to policies targeting maternal health. Place effects are larger for longer-distance moves and more influential for children of non-college...
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作者：Leblebicioglu, Asli; Savaser, Tanseli
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：We explore the consequences of trade secret protection for new business formation in the United States. We find the states that adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), which enhances intellectual property rights, experience an overall decline in firm and establishment entry rates. This result is driven by the reduction in the establishment entry rates of start-ups and small firms. By contrast, the law increases the establishment entry rates of incumbents and larger firms. The negative impa...
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作者：Lake, James; Liu, Ding
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Analysis Group Inc.
摘要：President George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. The tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed them. The...
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作者：Moscona, Jacob
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study investigates the relationship between the management of development aid and violent conflict in Africa. I exploit variation in World Bank project management quality driven by the assignment of project leaders of varying ability, combined with geo-coded data on all projects linked to performance report cards. I find that better project management reduces violent conflict across subnational aid receiving regions. Poorly managed projects increase conflict while well-managed projects do...
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作者：Qiu, Tian
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：This paper studies the heterogeneous impact of local government spending across racial groups. An exogenous increase in spending results in significant improvement in White, but not Black or Hispanic, labor market outcomes such as employment rate, weekly hours worked, and labor income. These effects on adults translate into their children's academic performance. White students show significant improvement in test scores, but Black or Hispanic students do not. Consequently, the achievement raci...
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作者：Anand, Vaibhav
作者单位：St. John's University
摘要：Significant investments are directed toward improving the accuracy and early availability of forecasts. However, the value of longer lead times on forecasts is unclear. Using data on winter weather advisories and vehicle crashes in the United States, I show that advisories with longer lead times reduce crashes, even when they are less accurate than advisories with shorter lead times. Further, marginal benefits do not decrease with lead time. The benefits come from individual and institutional ...
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作者：Guttman-Kenney, Benedict; Adams, Paul; Hunt, Stefan; Laibson, David; Stewart, Neil; Leary, Jesse
作者单位：Rice University; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Warwick
摘要：We test a nudge in a field experiment on credit cards. The nudge shrouds the autopay enrollment option for cardholders to automatically pay exactly the credit card minimum payment each month. After six months, the nudge decreases the fraction of cardholders who only pay exactly the minimum by 23 percent. However, the nudge does not significantly reduce credit card debt. Nudged cardholders often choose autopay amounts that are only slightly higher than the minimum payment. The nudge reduces aut...
