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作者:Allgood, Sam; Bayer, Amanda
作者单位:University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Swarthmore College
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作者:Caballero, Ricardo J.; Farhi, Emmanuel; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Roth, Alvin E.
作者单位:Stanford University
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作者:Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Mahoney, Neale
作者单位:Harvard University; University of Chicago
摘要:Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the US federal government. Spending in the last week of the year is 4.9 times higher than the rest-of-the-year weekly average, and year-end information technology projects have substantially lower quality ratings. We also analyze the gains from allowing agencies to roll...
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作者:Rothstein, Jesse
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a, b) study value-added (VA) measures of teacher effectiveness. CFR (2014a) exploits teacher switching as a quasi-experiment, concluding that student sorting creates negligible bias in VA scores. CFR (2014b) finds VA scores are useful proxies for teachers' effects on students' long-run outcomes. I successfully reproduce each in North Carolina data. But I find that the quasi-experiment is invalid, as teacher switching is correlated with changes in student prep...
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作者:Bowers, Jake; Higgins, Nathaniel; Karlan, Dean; Tulman, Sarah; Zinman, Jonathan
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yale University; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Dartmouth College
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作者:Carter, Susan Payne; Smith, Alexander A.; Wojtaszek, Carl
作者单位:United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army
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作者:Cohen, Jessica; Lofgren, Katherine; McConnell, Margaret
作者单位:Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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作者:Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens
作者单位:University of Wurzburg; University of Mannheim; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
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作者:Doleac, Jennifer L.; Hansen, Benjamin
作者单位:University of Virginia; University of Oregon