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作者：Gerber, Alan S.; Karlan, Dean; Bergan, Daniel
作者单位：Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Michigan State University
摘要：We conducted a field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on political behavior and opinion. Before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election, we randomly assigned individuals to a Washington Post free subscription treatment, a Washington Times free subscription treatment, or a control treatment. We find no effect of either paper on political knowledge, stated opinions, or turnout in post-election survey and voter data. However, receiving either paper led to more support f...
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作者：Jackson, Kirabo; Bruegmann, Elias
作者单位：Cornell University; United States Department of Labor; Cornerstone Research
摘要：Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and within-teacher variation, we show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when she has more effective colleagues (based on estimated value-added from an out-of-sample pre-period). Spillovers are strongest for less experie...
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作者：Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Colgate University
摘要：Large inflows of less educated immigrants may reduce wages paid to comparably-educated, native-horn workers. However, if less educated foreign- and native-born workers specialize in different production tasks, because of different abilities, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task supply, thereby reducing downward wage pressure. Using occupational task-intensity data from the O*NET dataset and individual US census data, we demonstrate that foreign-born workers specialize in occ...
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作者：Lafontaine, Francine; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset from a multinational chain with over 2,500 outlets in 43 countries to investigate the effects of labor regulations that protect employment. The dataset contains information on output, materials, and labor costs at a weekly frequency over several years, allowing us to examine the consequences of labor market rigidity at a much more detailed level than has been possible to date. We find that higher labor market rigidity is associated with significantly hi...
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作者：Maurin, Eric; Moschion, Julie
作者单位：Paris School of Economics; Paris School of Economics
摘要：In France, as in the US, a mother's labor market participation is influenced by the sex composition of her two eldest siblings. This paper shows that it is also affected by the sex composition of the eldest siblings of the other mothers living in the same close neighborhood. Using the sex composition of neighbors' eldest siblings as an instrumental variable, we identify a significant elasticity of own labor market participation to neighbors' participation. We present supportive evidence by com...
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作者：Piketty, Thomas; Qian, Nancy
作者单位：Brown University
摘要：This paper evaluates income tax reforms in China and India. The combination of fast income growth and under-indexed tax schedule in China implies the fraction of the Chinese population subject to income tax has increased from less than 0.1 percent in 1986 to about 20 percent in 2008, while it has stagnated around 2-3 percent in India. Chinese income tax revenues, as a share of GDP, increased from less than 0.1 percent in 1986 to about 1.5 percent in 2005 and 2.5 percent in 2008, while the cons...
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作者：Field, Erica
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper examines the influence of psychological responses to debt on career choices from an experiment in which alternative financial aid packages were assigned by lottery to a set of law school admits. The packages had equivalent monetary value, but one required the student to take on a loan that would be paid for by the school if he worked in public interest law, while the other covered tuition as long as the student worked in public interest law. If he did not, the student would be requi...
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作者：Carpenter, Christopher; Dobkin, Carlos
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：We estimate the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. We find large and immediate increases in drinking at age 21, including a 21 percent increase in recent drinking days. We also find a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21, primarily due to motor vehicle accidents, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides. We estimate a 10 percent increase in the number of drinking days for young adults results in a 4...
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作者：Guryan, Jonathan; Kroft, Kory; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper uses random assignment in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that playing partners' ability affects performance, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the workplace from laboratory experiments, grocery scanners, and soft fruit pickers. In our preferred specification, we can rule out peer effects larger than 0.043 strokes for a one stroke increase in playing partners' ability. Our results complement existing studies o...
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作者：Fisman, Raymond; Wei, Shang-Jin
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：We empirically analyze the illicit trade in cultural property and antiques, taking advantage of different reporting incentives between source and destination countries. We generate a measure of illicit trafficking in these goods by comparing imports recorded in United States' customs data and the (purportedly identical) trade recorded by customs authorities in exporting countries. This reporting gap is highly correlated with corruption levels of exporting countries. This correlation is stronge...
