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作者：Besley, Timothy; Dray, Sacha
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper explores the link between trust in government, policymaking and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced of the merits of a policy are more motivated to comply with it. This, in turn, reduces the government's cost of implementing this policy and may also increase the set of feasible interventions. As a result, state effectiveness is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins...
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作者：Alatas, Vivi; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Mobius, Markus; Olken, Benjamin A.; Paladines, Cindy
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Microsoft; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Do celebrity endorsements matter? And if so, how can celebrities communicate effectively? We conduct a nationwide Twitter experiment in Indonesia promoting vaccination. Celebrity messages are 72% more likely to be passed on or liked than similar messages without a celebrity's imprimatur. In total, 66% of the celebrity effect comes from authorship, compared to passing on messages. Citing external medical sources decreases retweets by 27%. Phone surveys show that those randomly exposed to messag...
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作者：Cavounidis, Costas; Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Warwick; Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：African Americans face shorter employment durations than similar Whites. We hypothesise that employers discriminate in acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. In our model, monitoring Black, but not White, workers is self-sustaining. New Black hires were more likely fired by previous employers after monitoring. This reduces firms' beliefs about ability, incentivising discriminatory monitoring. We confirm our predictions that layoffs are initially higher for Black than non-Black wo...
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作者：Celik, Levent; Drugov, Mikhail
作者单位：University of Leicester; New Economic School; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Barcelona School of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We study verifiable disclosure by a seller when the product has multiple quality attributes. We identify an equilibrium in which, for some qualities, the seller discloses its score -the average of the qualities-and does not reveal anything else. This occurs when its score is sufficiently high or when the qualities are sufficiently similar and the score is not too low. Otherwise, the seller fully discloses. While full unravelling is still an equilibrium, it is dominated by this partial score di...
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作者：Falisse, Jean-Benoit; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Olofsgard, Anders
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：We designed and randomly evaluated the impact of textbooks for a self-study scheme in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo targeting student achievement in primary schools. Students in treatment schools were 7 percentage points more likely to pass the national exam, and those who passed obtained higher scores. We also evidence higher scores on a French language test. The effects are primarily driven by student interest in textbooks, frequency of doing homework and motivation t...
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作者：Catonini, Emiliano
作者单位：New York University; NYU Shanghai
摘要：I show that, in an extensive-form game, the outcomes that are consistent with iterated admissibility (i.e., with the iterated elimination of weakly dominated strategies) need not be consistent with extensive-form rationalizability.
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作者：Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher
作者单位：University of Cologne; University of Copenhagen; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Cologne; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Max Planck Society
摘要：We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US voters, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in a right-wing biased, left-wing biased or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Right-wing voters strongly reduce their demand for left-wing biased news, but not for right-wing biased news. The reverse patterns hold for left-wing ...
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作者：Riano, Juan Felipe; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia
作者单位：Georgetown University; University of British Columbia; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We investigate the long-term impact of conflict on economic development, focusing on the US 'Secret War' in Laos (1964-73). Our study employs multiple empirical strategies and data on bombing campaigns, satellite imagery, and development indicators to demonstrate that regions heavily bombed during this period experienced lower economic development almost fifty years after the conflict officially ended. A one-standard-deviation increase in bombing intensity is associated with a 7.1% decrease in...
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作者：Ershov, Daniel; Morales, Juan S.
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University
摘要：On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform, the new interface nudged users to be thoughtful about the content they were sharing. Using data on over 160,000 tweets by US news media outlets, we show that this policy significantly reduced news sharing, but that the reductions varied heterogeneously by political slant: sharing of content fell signi...
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作者：Allub, Lian; Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoe
作者单位：University of London; Birkbeck University London; Autonomous University of Madrid
摘要：Capital-skill complementarity in production implies non-trivial interactions between the availability of human capital and financial constraints. Firms that are constrained in their access to finance hire a lower proportion of skilled workers than do unconstrained firms. Conversely, a lack of human capital increases skilled wages, reducing firms' desired capital intensity and thus loosening firms' effective financial constraints. To assess the macroeconomic implications of such firm-level inte...
