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作者：Currie, Janet
摘要：The child mental health crisis has been described as the defining public health crisis of our time. This article addresses three myths about the crisis: (i) the idea that the crisis is new; (ii) the belief that increases in youth suicide mainly reflect deterioration in children's underlying mental health; and (iii) the myth that investments in children have little impact on children's mental health. In fact, the crisis has existed for decades, youth suicides vary asynchronously with other ment...
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作者：Chen, Qiaoyi; Chen, Zhao; Liu, Zhikuo; Serrato, Juan Carlos Suarez; Xu, Daniel Yi
作者单位：Fudan University
摘要：We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates. Using detailed firm-level data and difference-in-differences research designs, we show that regulated firms cut output and shifted some production to unregulated firms within their conglomerate instead of improving their energy efficiency. To account for conglomerate and market spillovers, we interpret these results through the lens of an industry equilibrium model featuring con...
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作者：Carlana, Michela; La Ferrara, Eliana
作者单位：Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study the Tutoring Online Program (TOP), where tutoring is entirely online and tutors are volunteer university students matched with underprivileged middle school students. We leverage random assignment to estimate effects during and after the pandemic (2020 and 2022), investigating channels of impact. Three hours of individual tutoring per week increased math performance by 0.22 SD in 2020 and 0.20 SD in 2022. Higher dosage yielded stronger effects, while group tutoring smaller effects. TO...
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作者：Gulesci, Selim; Jindani, Sam; La Ferrara, Eliana; Smerdon, David; Sulaiman, Munshi; Young, Peyton
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; National University of Singapore; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Queensland; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University; University of Oxford
摘要：We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first step, it may also become a new norm. We derive intuitive conditions for stepping stones, which depend on the relative size of social penalties and intrinsic utility benefits. We propose an econometric approach to testing whether an intermediate action is a stepping stone, and apply it to original data on fem...
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作者：Hawkins, Amelia; Hollrah, Christopher; Miller, Sarah; Wherry, Laura r.; Aldana, Gloria; Wong, Mitchell
作者单位：Brandeis University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; New York University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of California Los Angeles Medical Center; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
摘要：The Supplemental Security Income program uses a birth weight cutoff at 1,200 grams to determine eligibility. Using birth certificates linked to administrative records, we find low-income families of infants born just below the cutoff receive higher monthly cash benefits (equal to 27 percent of family income) at ages 0-2 with smaller benefits continuing through age 10. Yet we detect no improvements in health care use and mortality in infancy, nor in health and human capital outcomes as observed...
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作者：Adukia, Anjali; Feigenberg, Benjamin; Momeni, Fatemeh
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Chicago
摘要：School districts historically approached conflict resolution from the perspective that suspending disruptive students was necessary to protect their classmates, even if this caused harm to perceived offenders. Restorative practices (RP)-focusing on reparation, accountability, and shared ownership of disciplinary justice-are designed to address undesirable behavior without harming students. We study Chicago Public Schools' adoption of RP and find that suspensions and arrests decreased, driven b...
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作者：Atkeson, Andrew; Heathcote, Jonathan; Perri, Fabrizio
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要：The US net foreign asset position declined sharply after 2007, reaching negative 60 percent of GDP by the third quarter of 2023. This deterioration primarily reflects a US-specific rise in corporate asset values that inflated the value of US equity liabilities to the rest of the world. To interpret these trends, we develop an international macro-finance model of flows, stocks, asset valuations, the current account, and the net foreign asset position. We find that the welfare impact of rising a...
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作者：Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; Planterose, Bluebery; Chico, Ana sanchez; Stantcheva, Stefanie
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Analysis Group Inc.; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different types of information. We conduct large-scale surveys with 40,000 respondents from 20 countries, providing new international data on attitudes toward climate change and respondents' socioeconomic backgrounds and lifestyles. We identify three key perceptions affecting policy support: perceived effectiveness of policies in...
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作者：Guo, Yingni; Shmaya, Eran
作者单位：Duke University; Northwestern University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We study how to regulate a monopolistic firm using a robust-design, non-Bayesian approach. We derive a policy that minimizes the regulator's worst-case regret, where regret is the difference between the regulator's complete-information payoff and his realized payoff. When the regulator's payoff is consumers' surplus, he caps the firm's average revenue. When his payoff is the total surplus of both consumers and the firm, he offers a piece rate subsidy to the firm while capping the total subsidy...
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作者：Horton, John J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Firms posting job openings in an online labor market were randomly assigned minimum hourly wages. When facing a minimum wage, fewer firms hired, but those they did hire paid higher wages. Hours- worked fell substantially. Treated firms shifted to hiring more productive workers. Using the platform's imposition of a market-wide minimum wage after the experiment, I find that many of the experimental results also hold in equilibrium, including the substitution towards more productive workers. Howe...
