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作者：Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta
作者单位：University of Cologne; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Hong Kong; University of London; University College London
摘要：We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture were brought together. We find that East German gender norms are persistent, whereas West German ones are not. ...
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作者：Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; Singer, Gregor
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of Reading; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We examine the effect of intergroup competition on within-group violent conflict in Indonesia. Using a triple-differences design, we find that higher competition for national government transfers between villages reduces within-village conflict. These effects persist regardless of the competition's outcome, are stronger in ethnically fractionalized and segregated villages, and are accompanied by higher attendance in village meetings. Our results are consistent with external competition favorin...
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作者：Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Pizzigolotto, Alessandro; Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：Can policies shape personal values and beliefs? To examine, we exploit the staggered introduction of faith-based initiatives across US states. Our difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the initiatives strengthened religiosity and conservative-religious social views, such as attitudes against homosexuals. The evidence points to causal effects; we find no systematic differences prior to implementation, the results are robust to restricting comparison to contiguous counties and to condu...
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作者：Agan, Amanda Y.; Cowgill, Bo; Gee, Laura K.
作者单位：Cornell University; Columbia University; Tufts University
摘要：We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using afield experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of salary questions and the candidates'disclosures for male and female applicants. Our findings suggest that extra dollars disclosed yield higher salary offers, willingness to pay, and perceptions of outside options by recruiters (all similarly for men and women). Recruiters make negative inferences about the quality a...
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作者：Reck, Daniel; Seibold, Arthur
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Munich
摘要：We analyze welfare under reference-dependent preferences. We decompose the first-order welfare effects of reference point and price changes into direct and behavioral effects. The sign of these effects depends on the form of reference-dependent payoffs; which effects are welfare relevant depends on whether reference dependence reflects a bias. We characterize corresponding social welfare effects in terms of estimable reduced-form parameters and normative judgments. We apply our framework to re...
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作者：Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of Virginia; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Universite PSL; MINES ParisTech
摘要：We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies and use it to provide systematic evidence of the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism-the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly constructed data on the locations and characteristics of over 1,000 wind farms in India, we estimate that at least 52 percent of approved carbon offsets were allocated to projects that would very likely have been built anyway. We estimate that the sale of ...
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作者：Xu, Xiaogeng; Metsalampi, Satu; Kirchler, Michael; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Matthews, Peter Hans; Miettinen, Topi
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics; University of Turku; University of Innsbruck; Tampere University; Middlebury College
摘要：Received wisdom holds that income rank matters for life satisfaction, but causal evidence on the nature and impact of income comparisons is limited. We randomize individuals from a representative sample of mid-career Finns to receive personal rank information from one of several reference groups. We find strong evidence of the effect of rank information on income satisfaction, but weaker effects on life satisfaction, and some evidence of real effects in experimental and administrative data. Ef...
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作者：Leone, Fabrizio; Macchiavello, Rocco; Reed, Tristan
作者单位：Universite Libre de Bruxelles; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; The World Bank
摘要：Prices for several intermediate inputs, including cement, are higher in developing economies-particularly in Africa. Combining recent data from the International Comparison Program with a global directory of cement firms, we estimate an industry equilibrium model to distinguish between drivers of international price dispersion: demand, costs, conduct, and entry. Developing economies feature both higher marginal costs and higher markups. African markets are not characterized by less competitive...
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作者：Agrawal, David r.; Foremny, Dirk; Martinez-toledano, Clara
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Barcelona; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Imperial College London
摘要：We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times larger than th...
