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作者：Sigurdsson, Josef
作者单位：Stockholm University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Labor income earned in Iceland in 1987 went untaxed. I use this episode to study labor supply responses to temporary wage changes. Using a population-wide dataset of earnings and working time and two identification strategies, I estimate intensive and extensive margin Frisch elasticities of 0.4 and 0.09, respectively. Workers with the ability to adjust drive these average responses: extensive margin by young and close-to-retirement cohorts and intensive margin responses by workers in temporall...
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作者：Daysal, N. Meltem; Pedersen, Mikkel Hasse; Evans, William N.; Trandafir, Mircea
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Notre Dame; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We investigate the effects of radiation therapy on the mortality and economic outcomes of breast cancer patients. We implement a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-difference framework exploiting variation in treatment stemming from a medical guideline change in Denmark. We reproduce the results from an RCT showing the lifesaving benefits of radiotherapy. We show radiation therapy also has economic returns: Ten years after diagnosis, treatment increases employment by 37 percent and earnings ...
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作者：Firoozi, Daniel; Geyn, Igor
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Civic externalities motivate education expenditures, but estimates of the civic returns to large-scale education subsidies are scarce. We use 16 million financial aid applications and a regression discontinuity (RD) design to estimate how a tuition-free college program impacts political participation. We find that each of the 2.6 million awards increased a student's voter turnout rate by 4-12 percentage points in 2020, raising total turnout and Biden's margin of victory in the awarding state. ...
