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作者：Linos, Elizabeth; Prohofsky, Allen; Ramesh, Aparna; Rothstein, Jesse; Unrath, Matthew
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The Earned Income Tax Credit distributes more than $60 billion to over 20 million low-income families annually. Nevertheless, an estimated one-fifth of eligible households do not claim it. We ran six preregistered, large-scale field experiments with 1 million obser-vations to test whether nudges could increase EITC take-up. Despite varying the content, design, messenger, and mode of our messages, we find no evidence that they affected households' likeli-hood of filing a tax return or claiming ...
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作者：Cherniwchan, Jevan; Najjar, Nouri
作者单位：Carleton University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This paper investigates how a common form of environmental regulation-air quality standards-affects exporters. We develop a simple theoretical model to show how the design of these standards causes (i) some firms to stop exporting and (ii) a reduction in the export volumes of affected continuing exporters. We exploit quasi-experimental variation resulting from the design of Canadian air quality standards to test these predictions empirically. Our estimates confirm our model's predictions: we f...
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作者：Sacarny, Adam; Baicker, Katherine; Finkelstein, Amy
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study the impact of expanded adult Medicaid eligibility on the enrollment of already-eligible children. We analyze the 2008 Oregon Medicaid lottery, in which some low-income uninsured adults were randomly selected to be allowed to apply for Medicaid. Children in these households were eligible for Medicaid irrespective of the lottery outcome. We estimate statistically significant but transitory impacts of adult lottery selection on child Medicaid enrollment: at three months after the lottery...
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作者：LEVINSON, A. R. I. K.; SILVA, E. M. I. L. S. O. N.
作者单位：Georgetown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Alberta
摘要：In theory, regulators concerned about inequality will deviate from efficient two-part tariffs, charging lower-than-efficient fixed monthly fees and higher-than-efficient per-kilowatt-hour prices. To quantify that relationship, we develop a measure of the redistributive extent of utility tariffs: the electric Gini. Utilities with higher electric Ginis shift more costs from households using relatively little electricity to households using more. In practice, US utilities whose ratepayers have mo...
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作者：JARDIM, E. K. A. T. E. R. I. N. A.; LONG, M. A. R. K. C.; PLOTNICK, R. O. B. E. R. T.; VAN INWEGEN, E. M. M. A.; VIGDOR, J. A. C. O. B.; WETHING, H. I. L. A. R. Y.
作者单位：Amazon.com; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; National Bureau of Economic Research; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as $11 in 2015 and as much as $13 in 2016. We use Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact. Relative to outlying regions of the state identified by the synthetic control method, aggregate employment at wages less than twice the original minimum-measured by total hours worked-declined. A portion of this reduction reflects jobs transitioning to wages above the threshold; the aggregate analysis likely overs...
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作者：SETTELE, S. O. N. J. A.
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Copenhagen
摘要：I conduct a survey experiment to study the relationship between people's beliefs about the size of the gender wage gap and their demand for policies aimed at mitigating it. Beliefs causally affect support for equal pay legislation and affirmative action programs, but cannot account for the polarization in policy views by partisanship and gender Changes in policy demand seem to be driven by changes in beliefs about discrimination in labor markets and fairness concerns, while self-interest appea...
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作者：Brulhart, Marius; Gruber, Jonathan; Krapf, Matthias; Schmidheiny, Kurt
作者单位：University of Lausanne; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Basel; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：We study how declared wealth responds to changes in wealth tax rates. Exploiting rich intranational variation in Switzerland, we find a 1 percentage point drop in a canton's wealth tax rate raises reported taxable wealth by at least 43 percent after 6 years. Administrative tax records of two cantons with quasi-randomly assigned differential tax reforms suggest that 24 percent of the effect arises from taxpayer mobility and 21 percent from a concurrent rise in housing prices. Savings responses ...
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作者：Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; George Mason University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions and how these perceptions relate to their national and global policy pref...
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作者：Heffetz, Ori; O'donoghue, Ted; Schneider, Henry S.
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Cornell University; Cornell University; Queens University - Canada
摘要：We investigate heterogeneity in responsiveness to reminder letters among New York City parking ticket recipients. Using variation in the timing of letters, we find a strong aggregate response. But we find large differences across individuals: those with a low base-line propensity to respond to tickets-a natural nudge target-react least to letters. These low-response types, who incur significant late penalties, disproportionately come from already disadvan-taged groups. They do react strongly t...
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作者：Su, Yichen
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas
摘要：In recent decades, gentrification has transformed American central city neighborhoods. I estimate a spatial equilibrium model to show that the rising value of high-skilled workers' time contributes to the gentrification of American central cities. I show that the increasing value of time raises the cost of commuting and exogenously increases the demand for central locations by high-skilled workers. While change in the value of time has a modest direct effect on gentrification of central cities...
