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作者：Ciancio, Alberto; Delavande, Adeline; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Kohler, Iliana, V
作者单位：University of Glasgow; University of Technology Sydney; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We investigate the impact of a randomised information intervention about population-level mortality on health investment and subjective health expectations. Our focus is on risky sex in a high-HIV-prevalence environment. Treated individuals are less likely to engage in risky sexual practices one year after the intervention, with, for example, an 8% increase in abstinence. We collected detailed data on individuals' subjective expectations about their own and population survival, as well as othe...
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作者：Castro, Adrian Nieto
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：This paper exploits exogenous variation in the transition date from an analogue to digital television signal in the UK across more than 32,000 geographical units to examine the causal impact of television on academic performance and potential mechanisms. Using a large administrative dataset on the universe of students in public education in England, I show that the switchover increased pupil test scores and that the effect is driven by economically disadvantaged students. Using TV market data ...
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作者：Bartels, Charlotte; Jaeger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We investigate consequences of land inequality, exploiting variation in land inheritance rules that traverse political, linguistic, geological and religious borders in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible. Using a geographic regression discontinuity design, we first show a more equal land distribution in ar...
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作者：Grossmann, Volker; Schuenemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger
作者单位：University of Fribourg; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Gottingen
摘要：We study the optimal design of a fair public pension system in a multi-period overlapping generations model with occupation-specific morbidity and mortality that depends on the retirement age. The fairness constraint acts as institutional device ensuring that lifetime returns to contributions are equal across occupational groups. We consider group-specific replacement rates and a calculatory interest rate for early contributions as policy instruments. Calibrating the model to Germany, we find ...
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作者：Bronnenberg, Bart J.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper proposes a model of the distribution channel to study the decisions of manufacturers, retailers and consumers. The model is used to study how retail distribution affects manufacturing and consumers. As the cost of distribution falls, the retail sector increases assortment size and allows a larger mass of manufacturers to enter, allowing consumers to buy more variety. Entry primitives in manufacturing and retailing determine vertical pricing power. The equilibrium of the model predic...
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作者：Afzal, Uzma; D'Adda, Giovanna; Fafchamps, Marcel; Quinn, Simon; Said, Farah
作者单位：Lahore University of Management Sciences; University of Milan; Stanford University; Imperial College London
摘要：We conduct a field experiment in which we offer credit and saving contracts to the same pool of Pakistani microfinance clients. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form of reminders, either to respondents or to their families), hard commitment (in the form of a penalty for missing an instalment) and flexibility (an option to postpone an instalment) to save or pay loan instalments on time. We find substantial demand for fixed repayment contracts in both the cre...
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作者：Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crino, Rosario; Fadinger, Harald; Gancia, Gino
作者单位：University of Bergamo; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Mannheim; University of Milano-Bicocca
摘要：We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes. Guided by a simple model, we develop a novel empirical strategy to identify the causal effects of robot adoption. Our results suggest that, while demand shocks generate a positive correlation between robot imports and employment at the firm level, exogenous exposure to automation leads to job losses. We also find that robot exposure increases labour productivity and some evidence ...
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作者：Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien; Trebbi, Francesco
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Inter-American Development Bank; University of Oxford; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Can voters in clientelist countries be swayed by programmatic promises? Results from a structural model and a field experiment disseminating candidate policy platforms in Philippine mayoral elections indicate that they can. Voters who received information about candidate policy promises were more likely to vote for candidates who were closer to their own preferences. Voters who were informed about incumbent candidates' past commitments were more likely to vote for incumbents who fulfilled them...
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作者：Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Fenske, James; Nyshadham, Anant; Stanley, Richard
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Warwick
摘要：Using two decades of data from 12 low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviours. Despite these efforts, surviving children still exhibit negative health impacts. Our data allow us to investigate differential impacts over time and across countries. We find declining impacts over time, suggesting adaptation. Using national-level meas...
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作者：Atanasov, Pavel; Dana, Jason D.; Teeselink, Bouke Klein
作者单位：IE University; Yale University; University of London; King's College London
摘要：Gender discrimination is present across various fields, but identifying the underlying mechanism is challenging. We demonstrate own-gender favouritism in a field setting that allows for clean identification of tastes versus beliefs: the One Bid game on the TV show The Price Is Right. Players must guess an item's value without exceeding it, leaving the last bidder with a dominant 'cutoff' strategy of overbidding another player by ${\$}$1. We show that last bidders are significantly more likely ...
