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作者：Foy, Morgan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper examines whether the civil service system protected state bureaucrats from political interference following a recall petition against the governor of Wisconsin. I find that most classified workers , who were covered by the state civil service laws , were paid equally by signing status following the public disclosure of the petition list. Conversely , signers in the unclassified service , a smaller set of government positions , were paid about 3 percent less annually relative to nons...
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作者：Giacobino, Helene; Huillery, Elise; Michel, Bastien; Sage, Mathilde
作者单位：Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; Nantes Universite
摘要：We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial, we find that after three years of implementation, the intervention led to large and positive effects. It halved both dropout and marriage rates and increased girls' and their parents' aspirations. Importantly, there is no displacement effect detrimental to the education and marriage status of no...
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作者：Gerardino, Maria Paula; Litschig, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank; National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; University of Zurich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Public sector audits are key to state capacity. However, they can create unintended distortions. Regression discontinuity analysis from Chile shows that audits lowered the use of auctions for public procurement, reduced supplier competition, and increased the likelihood of small, local, and incumbent firms winning contracts. Looking inside the black box of the audit process reveals that relative to comparable direct contracts, auctions underwent more than twice as many checks and led to twice ...
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作者：Figlio, David; Ozek, Umut
作者单位：University of Rochester; RAND Corporation
摘要：School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study Florida policy that places middle school students who score below proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below cutoff receive more educational resources, but they are also placed in classes that are more segregated by race, socioeconomic status, and prior achievement. Increased tra...
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作者：Holz, Justin; Jimenez-Duran, Rafael; Laguna-Muggenburg, Eduardo
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Bocconi University
摘要：Thirty-four states prohibit price increases during emergencies, and individuals take costly actions to report violators. We measure experimentally the willingness to pay to report sellers who increase prices of personal protective equipment. Over 75 percent of subjects pay to report, even if others are willing to buy at those prices. We argue that reports contain information about a desire to prevent or punish third -party transactions at unfair or illicit prices. Reports are partially driven ...
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作者：Kankanhalli, Gaurav; Kwan, Alan; Merkley, Kenneth
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Innovative firms must trade off disclosing to investors and maintaining secrecy from competitors. We study this trade-off in a sample of IP licenses mandatorily disclosed by US public firms, whose contents can be temporarily redacted. Hand classifying the redacted information, we find that firms with valuable IP in competitive markets redact IP information more often. Markets react positively to the redaction of IP information, consistent with theoretical predictions rationalizing a separating...
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作者：Lepage, Louis-Pierre
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：I study discrimination arising from individual experiences of employers with worker groups. I present a model in which employers are uncertain about the productivity of one of two groups and learn through hiring. Positive experiences lead to positive biases, which correct themselves by leading to more hiring and learning. Negative experiences decrease hiring and learning, preserving negative biases, which can cause persistent discrimination. The model explains prejudice as incorrect statistica...
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作者：Cohen, Elior
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Kansas City
摘要：This study measures the impact of rapidly placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness, crime, and health. Using a caseworker placement tendencies design and a novel dataset constructed by linking administrative records from multiple public agencies in Los Angeles County, I estimate that rapidly placing individuals in housing programs significantly reduces the likelihood of future return to the homeless support system, crime, and reliance on emerge...
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作者：de Chaisemartin, Clement; Ramirez-Cuellar, Jaime
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Microsoft
摘要：In matched pairs experiments in which one cluster per pair of clusters is assigned to treatment, to estimate treatment effects, researchers often regress their outcome on a treatment indicator and pair fixed effects, clustering standard errors at the unit -of -randomization level. We show that even if the treatment has no effect, a 5 percentlevel t -test based on this regression will wrongly conclude that the treatment has an effect up to 16.5 percent of the time. To fix this problem, research...
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作者：Xu, Huayu; Adhvaryu, Achyuta
作者单位：Peking University; Peking University; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：We study the human capital effects of access to elite bureaucratic jobs in Taiwan , where performance on an examination determines entry into the civil service. Historically , quotas for successful applicants were set based on the 1948 populations of individuals' native provinces in mainland China. This resulted in a higher probability of success on the exam-and , thus , greater access to elite positions-for descendants of certain migrant groups. These preferential quotas were replaced in 1962...
