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作者：Tricaud, Clemence
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate. Exploiting a French reform that made intermunicipal cooperation mandatory, I find that municipalities forced to integrate experienced a large increase in construction, consistent with NIMBYism, explaining their resistance and that rural municipalities ended up with fewer local public services. I do not find the same effects for municipalities that had voluntarily integrated prior to the law, while both typ...
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作者：Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University; University of Chicago
摘要：We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes infirm-reported payments to gig and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals in the EITC phase-in range. We examine a regression discontinuity design that generates exogenous variation in tax rates at the end of the year after labor supply decisions are already sunk and find tax code incentives increase self-employment re...
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作者：Shrinivas, Aditya; Baylis, Kathy; Crost, Benjamin
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of Calgary
摘要：biggest expansions in food transfers in history, affecting over 500 million people. We use plausibly exogenous variation created by the NFSA to estimate the effect of food transfers on child nutrition. Using individual panel data across eight states in India over five years, we find that increased transfers significantly reduced stunting. The food transfers increased wage incomes and improved dietary diversity. Our results suggest that, in the states we study, the NFSA prevented approximately ...
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作者：Handley, Kyle; Kamal, Fariha; Monarch, Ryan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Syracuse University
摘要：We examine the impacts of the 2018-2019 US import tariff increases on US exports through the lens of supply chain linkages. Using 2016 confidential firm-trade linked data, we identify exporters who were importing products that eventually faced tariff increases to construct product-level exposure to import tariffs. We find that the most exposed products had lower exports in 2018-2019, with the largest effects in 2019. The decline in exports in 2019 is equivalent to an ad valorem tariff on US ex...
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作者：Nagengast, Arne j.; Yotov, Yoto v
作者单位：Deutsche Bundesbank; Drexel University
摘要：We nest an extended two-way fixed effect ( ETWFE ) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements ( RTAs ) . The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be biased downward ( by more than 50 percent in our sample). Sensitivity analyses confirm the robustness of our main findings and demonstrate the applicability of our methods across settings. We expec...
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作者：Chakrabarti, Anindya s.; Mahajan, Kanika; Tomar, Shekhar
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Ashoka University; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Firms are increasingly concerned about the resilience of their sales and sourcing decisions. Using administrative data, we show that a temporary disruption in trade due to state border closures in India led to a persistent trade collapse within the country-- interstate trade relative to intrastate remains five percent lower even six months after all restrictions were lifted. Reshoring explains this phenomenon as plants more dependent on interstate sales ( input-sourcing) shift from inter- to i...
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作者：Massenkoff, Maxim; Rose, Evan k.
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on crime. For mothers, criminal arrests drop precipitously in the first few months of pregnancy, decreasing 50 percent overall. Men show a sustained 20 percent decline in crime that begins around pregnancy, although arrests for domestic violence spike at birth. A separate design using parents of stillborn children to estimate counterfactual arrest rates reinforces the main findings. Marriage, in contrast, is not associated wit...
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作者：Ngo, Diana; Dustan, Andrew
作者单位：Occidental College; William & Mary
摘要：The gender gap in STEM widens during high school due both to differences in student choices and institutional barriers to accessing STEM education. Using rich data from Mexico City's centralized assignment system and a structural model of high school choice, we document strong demand for elite STEM programs and relatively weak demand for non-elite STEM programs. Decomposition and counterfactual simulations demonstrate that most of the gap is due to gendered choices, with males more strongly pr...
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作者：Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We examine how supply-side health insurance generosity affects patient access, use, and health. Exploiting large, exogenous changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians, we find that increasing payments for new patient office visits reduces reports of providers turning away beneficiaries: closing the gap in payments between Medicaid and private insurers would reduce more than half of disparities in access among adults and would eliminate such disparities among children. We further fi...
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作者：Bozio, Antoine; Garbinti, Bertrand; Goupille-lebret, Jonathan; Guillot, Malka; Piketty, Thomas
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS de LYON); University of Liege
摘要：We construct series of posttax income for France over the 1900-2018 period and compare them with US series. We quantify the extent of redistribution -the reduction from pretax to posttax inequality -and estimate the contribution of redistribution in explaining differences in posttax inequality. We find that di f ferences in pretax inequality drive most of the differences in posttax inequality between France and the United States, and that changes over time in both countries are mostly due to c...
