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作者:Chalfin, Aaron; Goncalves, Felipe
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:We study how public sector workers balance their professional motivations with private economic concerns, focusing on police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality. Days in which an officer works a second job after their police shift have higher opportunity cost, also reducing late-shift arrests. Combining our estimates in a dynamic model identifies officer prefere...
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作者:Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge; Jansen, Marcel; Martinez, Angel; Ozcan, Berkay; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Roldan-Mones, Antonio
作者单位:Autonomous University of Madrid; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Universitat Ramon Llull
摘要:The implementation of evidence-based policies hinges on the dissemination of evidence to policymakers, a process influenced by the attributes of the sender. We conducted a nationwide RCT with ideologically opposite think tanks, major newspapers, and a research institution with nonsalient ideology to communicate a nonideological, cost-effective policy to local policymakers. Results show a 65 percent increase in policy adoption when informing institutions align ideologically with policymakers. W...
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作者:Barrios-Fernandez, Andres; Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth
作者单位:Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Yale University
摘要:Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals who gain admission to elite college programs transform their children's social environment. Children become more likely to attend high-status private schools and colleges and to live near and befriend h...
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作者:Hahn, Robert W.; Hendren, Nathaniel; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sprung-Keyser, Ben
作者单位:University of Oxford; Carnegie Mellon University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Pennsylvania
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作者:Mokyr, Joel
作者单位:Northwestern University; Northwestern University; Tel Aviv University
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作者:Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, B. Douglas
作者单位:University of Zurich; University of Zurich; Stanford University
摘要:We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on preventing least preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are st...
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作者:Terry, Stephen J.; Chaney, Thomas; Burchardi, Konrad B.; Tarquinio, Lisa; Hassan, Tarek A.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern California; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry across counties with the contemporaneous inflow of migrants from different countries. We show a positive causal impact of immigration on local innovation and wages at the five-year horizon. The positive dynamic impact of immigration on innovation and wages dominates the short-run negative impact of increased labor supply. A...
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作者:Dupas, Pascaline; Handlan, Amy; Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Niederle, Muriel; Sere, Mateo; Sheng, Haoyu; Wolfers, Justin
作者单位:National Bureau of Economic Research; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks, and conference presentations, leveraging human judgment and audio-processing algorithms to measure the number, tone, and type of interruptions. Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor ...
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作者:Gupta, Arpit; Mittal, Vrinda; Van Nieuwerburgh, Stun
作者单位:New York University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要:We show remote work led to large drops in lease revenues, occupancy, and market rents in the commercial office sector. We revalue New York City office buildings, taking into account both the cash flow and discount rate implications of these shocks, and find a 46 percent decline in long-run value. For all US office markets combined, we find a $556.8 billion value destruction. Higher-quality buildings were buffered against these trends due to a flight to quality, while lower-quality offices are ...
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作者:Alfano, Marco; Cornelissen, Thomas
作者单位:University of Southampton; University of Essex
摘要:Conflict along transportation routes during Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgency significantly increases maize prices at distant locations, decreasing food security, health, and education. Estimated conflict risk has strong price effects independently of realized conflict, highlighting the importance of safety concerns. A model of least-cost route choice in the presence of conflict reveals that more and shorter alternative routes to circumvent conflict can lower prices but their effectiveness dimin...