-
作者：Agrawal, David r.; Foremny, Dirk; Martinez-toledano, Clara
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Barcelona; Imperial College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times larger than th...
-
作者：Bottan, Nicolas; Perez-truglia, Ricardo
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Home price expectations play a central role in macroeconomics and finance. However, there is little direct evidence on their effect on market choices. We provide causal evidence using a large-scale, high- stakes field experiment in the United States. We sent letters about home price trends to 57,910 homeowners who listed their homes. These letters contained randomized information creating nondeceptive, exogenous variation in home price expectations. Consistent with economic theory, higher expe...
-
作者：Ahmed, Akhter; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John; Kolt, Bastien; Roy, Shalini; Tauseef, Salauddin
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Cornell University; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
摘要：Social assistance programs can increase consumption and reduce poverty, but less is known about whether these impacts are sustained after programs end or how design and context influence sustainability. Using data collected in two regions of Bangladesh four years after a randomized intervention ended, we find that combining cash transfers with complementary programming led to sustained increases in consumption and reductions in poverty. Combining food transfers with complementary programming s...
-
作者：Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of Virginia; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Universite PSL; MINES ParisTech
摘要：We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies and use it to provide systematic evidence of the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism-the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly constructed data on the locations and characteristics of over 1,000 wind farms in India, we estimate that at least 52 percent of approved carbon offsets were allocated to projects that would very likely have been built anyway. We estimate that the sale of ...
-
作者：Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta
作者单位：University of Cologne; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Hong Kong; University of London; University College London
摘要：We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture were brought together. We find that East German gender norms are persistent, whereas West German ones are not. ...
-
作者：Agan, Amanda Y.; Cowgill, Bo; Gee, Laura K.
作者单位：Cornell University; Columbia University; Tufts University
摘要：We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using afield experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of salary questions and the candidates'disclosures for male and female applicants. Our findings suggest that extra dollars disclosed yield higher salary offers, willingness to pay, and perceptions of outside options by recruiters (all similarly for men and women). Recruiters make negative inferences about the quality a...
-
作者：Cohen, Jonathan; Johnston, Andrew C.; Lindner, Attila
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of California System; University of California Merced; University of London; University College London
摘要：We examine the depreciation of skills among unemployed German workers using a panel of skill measures linked to administrative data. Both the reemployment hazard and reemployment earnings steadily decline with unemployment duration. Indicators of depression and loneliness also rise substantially. However, we find no decline in a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The results imply that skill ...
-
作者：Haeck, Catherine; Laliberte, Jean-william
作者单位：University of Quebec; University of Quebec Montreal; University of Calgary
摘要：This paper uses census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of occupations to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into occupations by parental income. Children of high-income parents are significantly more likely to pursue high-paying and more desirable occupations. Since parents may pass on their occupations to their children, we further describe patterns of intergenerational occupational following and show they vary substantially a...
-
作者：Khanna, Gaurav; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Song, Ran
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Tongji University; Jinan University; Deakin University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National University of Singapore
摘要：We quantify how pollution affects aggregate productivity and welfare in spatial equilibrium. We show that skilled workers in China emigrate away from polluted cities. These patterns are evident under various empirical specifications, such as when instrumenting for pollution using upwind power plants, or thermal inversions. Pollution changes the spatial distribution of skilled and unskilled workers, and wage returns by location. We quantify the loss in aggregate productivity due to this re-sort...
-
作者：Renee, Laetitia
作者单位：Universite de Montreal
摘要：This paper studies the effects of a randomized control trial in which Canadian high school students were randomly invited to participate in a career guidance program during high school and/or made eligible for extra financial aid conditional on college enrollment. I use administrative records to examine the effects of the interventions on college enrollment, graduation, and income up to age 29. The guidance intervention increased students' four-year college enrollment and graduation rates and ...
