American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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• How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media AI翻译
  作者：Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tartei; Mccauley, Jeremy; Mogstad, Magne
  作者单位：University of Oslo; Statistics Norway; University of Bristol; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Combining rich data from the Norwegian media market with exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet , this paper provides causal evidence on how the internet affected traditional print media. Broadband internet adoption triggered large reductions in print readership and circulation and equally large increases in online news readership. Despite strong substitution from print to online news consumption , newspaper revenues fell dramatically. Newspapers responded t...
• Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and the Local Economic Benefits of Resource Extraction AI翻译
  作者：Christensen, Hans B.; Maffett, Mark; Rauter, Thomas
  作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Miami
  摘要：We examine how foreign corruption regulation affects the economic benefits communities receive from extraction activities in the resource-rich areas of Africa. After a mid-2000s increase in enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), nighttime luminosity increases by 15 percent (5 percent) in communities within a 10 -kilometer (25 -kilometer) radius of affected extraction facilities. Cash-wage employment also increases significantly, suggesting that the economic benefits are no...
• What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United Statest AI翻译
  作者：Jackson, C. Kirabo; Mackevicius, Claire L.
  作者单位：Northwestern University
  摘要：We conduct meta -analysis on a comprehensive set of studies of the impacts of US K-12 public school spending on student outcomesestimating average marginal impacts and heterogeneity across contexts. On average, a policy increasing spending by $1,000 per pupil for four years improves test scores by 0.0316a and college -going by 2.8 pp. Moving beyond averages, we use estimates of heterogeneity and observable policy differences to produce informative probability distributions of policy effects. E...
• Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work AI翻译
  作者：Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma
  作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York; University of Virginia
  摘要：How does remote work affect productivity and how productive are workers who choose remote jobs? We decompose these effects in a Fortune 500 firm. Before COVID-19, remote workers answered 12 percent fewer calls per hour than on-site workers. After offices closed, the productivity gap narrowed by 4 percent, and formerly on-site workers'call quality and promotion rates declined. Even with everyone remote, an 8 percent productivity gap persisted, indicating negative selection into remote jobs. A c...
• Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Electionst AI翻译
  作者：Banerjee, Abhijit; Enevoldsen, Nils; Pande, Rohini; Walton, Michael
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Yale University; Yale University; Harvard University
  摘要：Two years prior to elections , two-thirds of Delhi municipal councillors learned they had been randomly chosen for a preelection newspaper report card. Treated councillors in high -slum areas increased pro -poor spending , relative both to control counterparts and treated counterparts from low -slum areas. Treated incumbents ineligible to rerun in home wards because of randomly assigned gender quotas were substantially likelier to run elsewhere only if their report card showed a strong pro -po...
• Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States AI翻译
  作者：Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey
  作者单位：Monash University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Over the last few decades , health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital -based obstetric units in over 400 counties affects maternal and infant health via a difference -in -differences design. We find that closures lead mothers to experience a significant change in birth procedures such as inductions and C -sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse , the effects on a range of maternal and infant...
• The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease AI翻译
  作者：Sekhri, Sheetal; Shastry, Gauri Kartini
  作者单位：University of Virginia; Wellesley College
  摘要：The rising rate of chronic disease is a leading driver of the global disease burden. Yet, its determinants are not fully understood. Exploiting the Green Revolution and its expansion in historically groundwater-rich Indian districts, we examine the unanticipated contribution of agricultural productivity growth to the rise in chronic, diet-related diseases. We find that areas with greater adoption of new staple varieties saw an increase in diabetes in men born after the introduction of high-yie...
• Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria AI翻译
  作者：Okunogbe, Oyebola
  摘要：This paper examines how temporary exposure to a different ethnic region affects national integration, using original survey data from participants in Africa's largest national youth service program. Seven years later, participants randomly assigned to serve in a state with a different ethnic majority are five times more likely to live all across the country compared to those who served in their ethnic region. They have more interethnic romantic relationships and express greater national pride....
• Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location AI翻译
  作者：Braakmann, Nils; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wilson, Tanya
  作者单位：Newcastle University - UK; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Glasgow
  摘要：We provide first evidence that variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely held perception in the United Kingdom that South Asian households store gold jewelry at home. Price movements on the international market for gold exogenously affect the expected gains from burgling these households. Using a neighborhood-level panel on crime and difference-in-differences, we find that burglaries in South Asian neighb...
• Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculturet AI翻译
  作者：Dar, Manzoor H.; De Janvry, Alain; Emerick, Kyle; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Wiseman, Eleanor
  作者单位：CGIAR; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT); University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Tufts University; Stanford University; Stanford University
  摘要：Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers. We show that when compared to this government approach , informing private input suppliers in India about a new seed variety increases farmer -level adoption by over 50 percent. Suppliers become more proactive in informing potential customers and carrying the new variety. They induce increased adoption by...