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作者：Giaccobasso, Matias; Nathan, Brad; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Zentner, Alejandro
作者单位：VATT Institute for Economic Research; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Do perceptions about government spending affect willingness to pay taxes? We test this hypothesis with a natural field experiment that focuses on the allocation of property taxes to public schools. Our results show that taxpayers often misperceive the destination of their tax dollars. By introducing shocks to households' perceptions via an information-provision experiment, we find that perceptions of how tax dollars are used significantly affect the probability of filing a tax appeal. Moreover...
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作者：Jaevervall, Sebastian; Khoban, Roza
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW); University of Zurich
摘要：Political distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India. First, using variation in political turnover, we identify that politicians distort resources in favor of politically connected firms. Second, we show that reduced tariffs on input goods significantly decrease the distortionary effect of political connections, as trade reduces firms' dependence o...
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作者：Persson, Petra; Qiu, Xinyao; Rossin-Slater, Maya
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Stanford University; Stanford Medicine; Stanford University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：The health care system uses patient family medical history in many settings, and this practice is widely believed to improve the efficiency of health care allocation. This paper provides a counterpoint by documenting that reliance on hereditary information can amplify the misallocation of low-value care. We study Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and show that reliance on family medical history generates a snowball effect-the propagation of an original marginal diagnosis to a patient's ...
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作者：Cunningham, Jamein; Goodman-bacon, Andrew
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要：This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's legal services program ( LSP ) , which provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-difference ( DiD ) research design based on the program's rollout from 1965 to 1975. We find temporary increases in the rate of new divorces and persistent increases in welfare participation, consistent with LSP activities. We find increases in nonmarital birth rates that stem fro...
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作者：De Neve, Jan-Walter; Moshoeshoe, Ramaele; Bor, Jacob
作者单位：California State University System; San Diego State University; Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Boston University
摘要：Evidence on school-entry age impacts in lower-income countries is limited. We assess how school starting age affects human capital development in Lesotho, exploiting an enrollment age threshold. Children who start primary school at older ages overcome initial skill deficits as they progress. They are more likely to remain in school, spend less time on economic and household activities, and obtain substantially higher total years of schooling. In adulthood they are more likely to have professio...
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作者：Baruffaldi, Stefano; Gaessler, Fabian
作者单位：Polytechnic University of Milan; Barcelona School of Economics; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：We investigate the nature and relevance of physical capital in knowledge production. Exploiting adverse events in research laboratories, we find that scientists experience a persistent reduction in research output if they lose specialized physical capital-equipment and material they created over time for a particular research purpose. In contrast, they recover in productivity if they only lose generic physical capital. Scientists in older laboratories, who presumably lose more obsolete physica...
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作者：Bryan, Kevin A.; Hoffman, Mitchell; Sariri, Amir
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Would workers apply to better firms if they were more informed about firm quality? Collaborating with 26 science-based start-ups, we create a custom job board and invite business school alumni to apply. The job board randomizes across applicants to show coarse expert ratings of all start-ups' science and/or business model quality. Making ratings visible strongly reallocates applications toward higher-rated firms. This reallocation holds, restricting to high-quality workers. Treatments operate ...
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作者：Le Barbanchon, Thomas
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：This paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule. I extend the bunching formula of Saez (2010) to a dynamic setting that accounts for the value of future benefits tied to taxation. This yields new tests of tax-benefit linkage based on bunching heterogeneity. I verify in quasi-experiments that UI extension programs that decrease the value of future preserved benefits lead t...
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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：Bottan, Nicolas; Perez-truglia, Ricardo
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Home price expectations play a central role in macroeconomics and finance. However, there is little direct evidence on their effect on market choices. We provide causal evidence using a large-scale, high- stakes field experiment in the United States. We sent letters about home price trends to 57,910 homeowners who listed their homes. These letters contained randomized information creating nondeceptive, exogenous variation in home price expectations. Consistent with economic theory, higher expe...
