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作者：Anukriti, S.
作者单位：Boston College; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Can financial incentives resolve the fertility-sex ratio trade-off faced by countries with persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology? An Indian program, Devi Rupak, that seeks to lower fertility and the sex ratio is unable to do so. Although fertility decreases, the sex ratio at birth worsens as high son preference families are unwilling to forgo a son despite substantially higher benefits for a daughter Thus, financial incentives may only play a limited role in the...
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作者：McIntosh, Craig; Alegria, Tito; Ordonez, Gerardo; Zenteno, Rene
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Colegio Frontera Norte; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：This paper reports on the results of a large infrastructure investment experiment in which $68 million in spending was randomly allocated across a set of low-income urban neighborhoods in Mexico. We show that the program resulted in substantial improvements in access to infrastructure and increases in private investment in housing. While a pre-committed index of social capital did not improve, we find an apparent decrease in the incidence of personal assault and teen misbehavior in neighborhoo...
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作者：Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman; Corno, Lucia; de Walque, Damien; Svensson, Jakob
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; The World Bank; Stockholm University
摘要：We investigate the effect of a financial lottery program in Lesotho with relatively low expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention resulted in a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence over two years. Lottery incentives appear to be particularly effective in targeting individuals with ex ante risky sexual behavior, consistent with the hypothesis that lotteries are more valued by individuals willi...
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作者：Brodeur, Abel
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks by exploiting the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks. The findings suggest that successful attacks, in comparison to failed attacks, reduce the number of jobs and total earnings in targeted counties by approximately 2 percent in the years following the attack. Analyzing the channels, I find that successful attacks affect, in particular, specific industries such as housing. Last, I show that successful ...
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作者：Lafortune, Julien; Rothstein, Jesse; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Northwestern University
摘要：We study the impact of post-1990 school finance reforms, during the so-called adequacy era, on absolute and relative spending and achievement in low-income school districts. Using cm event study research. design that exploits the apparent randomness of reform timing, we show that reforms lead to sharp, inunediate, and sustained increases in spending in low-income school districts. Using representative samples from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we find that reforms cause incr...
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作者：Lindo, Jason M.; Siminski, Peter; Swensen, Isaac D.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law enforcement agencies and an identification strategy that exploits plausibly random variation in the timing of Division 1 football games. The estimates indicate that these events increase daily reports of rape with 17-24-year-old victims by 28 percent. The effects are driven largely by 17-24-year-old offenders and by offenders unknown to th...
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作者：Kinnan, Cynthia; Wang, Shing-Yi; Wang, Yongxiang
作者单位：Tufts University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California
摘要：This paper exploits a unique feature of China's history, the sentdown youth (SDY) program, to study the effects of access to internal migration. We show that temporary migration due to the SDY program created lasting inter-province links. We interact these links with two time-varying pull measures in potential destinations. Decades after the SDY program ended, increased access to migration in cities that sent SDY leads to higher rates of migration from provinces where those SDY temporarily res...
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作者：Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Sydney
摘要：Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early life interventions (e.g., lead remediation, nutritional assessment, medical evaluation, developmental surveillance, and public assistance referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for c...
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作者：Martinez A, Claudia; Puentes, Esteban; Ruiz-Tagle, Jaime
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Universidad de Chile; Universidad de Chile
摘要：We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned participation in a large scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program and evaluated its effects over 45 months. The program improved business practices, employment, and labor income. In the short run, self-employment increased by 14.8/25.2 percentage points for a small/...
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作者：Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Sonin, Konstantin
作者单位：ICREA; New Economic School; University of Chicago; HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
摘要：Does new media promote accountability in - nondemocratic countries, where offline media is often suppressed? We show that blog posts, which exposed corruption in Russian - state-controlled companies, had a negative causal impact on their market returns. For identification, we exploit the precise timing of blog posts by looking at - within-day results with - company-day fixed effects. Furthermore, we show that the posts are ultimately associated with higher management turnover and less minority...
