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作者：Hoekstra, Mark; Orozco-Aleman, Sandra
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mississippi State University
摘要：A critical immigration policy question is whether state and federal policy can deter undocumented workers from entering the United States. We examine whether Arizona SB 1070, arguably the most restrictive and controversial state immigration law ever passed, deterred entry into Arizona. We do so by exploiting a unique dataset from a survey of undocumented workers passing through Mexican border towns on their way to the United States. Results indicate the bill's passage reduced the flow of undoc...
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作者：Bove, Vincenzo; Gavrilova, Evelina
作者单位：University of Warwick; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Sparked by high-profile confrontations between police and citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere, many commentators have criticized the excessive militarization of law enforcement. We investigate whether surplus military-grade equipment acquired by local police departments from the Pentagon has an effect on crime rates. We use temporal variations in US military expenditure and between-counties variation in the odds of receiving a positive amount of military aid to identify the causal ef...
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作者：Dague, Laura; DeLeire, Thomas; Leininger, Lindsey
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Georgetown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Mathematica
摘要：This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, nondisabled adults without dependent children (childlessadults). We take advantage of the sudden imposition of an enrollment cap in Wisconsin, comparing the labor supply of enrollees to eligible applicants placed on a waitlist using a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences methods. We find enrollment into public insurance leads to sizable and statis...
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作者：Carey, Colleen
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：Subsidized health insurance markets use diagnosis-based risk adjustment to induce insurers to offer an equitable benefit to individuals of varying expected cost. I demonstrate that technological change after risk adjustment calibration-new drug entry and the onset of generic competition made certain diagnoses profitable or unprofitable in Medicare Part D. I then exploit variation in diagnoses' profitability driven by technological change to show insurers designed more favorable benefits for dr...
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作者：Houde, Sebastien; Aldy, Joseph E.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Harvard University; Resources for the Future; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Strategic & International Studies
摘要：Through an evaluation of the 2009 Recovery Act's State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, this paper examines consumers' response to energy efficiency rebates. The analysis shows that 70 percent of consumers claiming a rebate were inframarginal and an additional 15 percent 20 percent of consumers simply delayed their purchases by a few weeks. Consumers responded to rebates by upgrading to higher quality, but less energy-efficient models. Overall the impact of the program on long-term e...
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作者：Marion, Justin
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：This paper studies how affirmative action exemptions in public procurement can improve efficiency and government expenditures without harming disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) utilization. I examine a unique program employed by the Iowa Department of Transportation, where prior to 2013 prime contractors were allowed an exemption from a project's affirmative action requirement if their history of DBE utilization was sufficiently high. I find that prime contractors use the exemption to smo...
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作者：Bushnell, James B.; Holland, Stephen P.; Hughes, Jonathan E.; Knittel, Christopher R.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：The EPA's Clean Power Plan sets goals for CO2 emissions rate reductions by 2030 that vary substantially across states. States can choose the regulatory mechanism they use and whether or not to join with other states in implementing their goals. We analyze incentives to adopt rate standards versus cap-and-trade with theory and simulation. We show conditions where adoption of inefficient rate standards is a dominant strategy from both consumers' and generators' perspectives. Numerical simulation...
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作者：Mattoo, Aaditya; Mishra, Prachi; Subramanian, Arvind
作者单位：The World Bank; Reserve Bank of India
摘要：This paper estimates the effect of China's exchange rate changes on exports of developing countries in third markets. The degree of competition between China and its developing country competitors in specific products and destinations plays a key role in the identification strategy. The strategy exploits variation across exporters, importers, products and time-afforded both by disaggregated trade data and bilateral exchange rates-to estimate this competitor country effect. There is robust evid...
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作者：Ramnath, Shanthi P.; Tong, Patricia K.
作者单位：United States Department of the Treasury
摘要：Low-income households not required to file often fail to receive benefits provided through the tax code. In 2008, the US government made people with at least $3,000 in earnings eligible for a stimulus payment if they filed a tax return. Using eligibility for this credit as an instrument for filing, we find with administrative data that filing reduces the probability of living in poverty in future years, which is a result of increases in EITC claiming, workforce attachment, and earnings. These ...
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作者：Hanna, Rema; Wang, Shing-Yi
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Students in India who cheat on a simple laboratory task are more likely to prefer public sector jobs. This paper shows that cheating on this task predicts corrupt behavior by civil servants, implying that it is a meaningful predictor of future corruption. Students who demonstrate pro-social preferences are less likely to prefer government jobs, while outcomes on an explicit game and attitudinal measures to measure corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. A screening process th...
