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作者：Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Neisser, Carina
作者单位：University of Ottawa; Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Cologne; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper examines the relationship between p-hacking, publication bias and data-sharing policies. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic journals between 2002-20. We find that, while data-sharing policies increase the provision of data, they do not decrease the extent of p-hacking and publication bias. Similarly, articles that use hard-to-access administrative data or third-party surveys, as compared to those that use easier-to-access (e.g., autho...
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作者：Gregg, Amanda; Nafziger, Steven
作者单位：Middlebury College; Williams College
摘要：Enterprise creation, destruction and evolution support the transition to modern economic growth, yet these processes are poorly understood in industrialising contexts. We investigate Imperial Russia's industrial development at the firm level by examining entry, exit and persistence of corporations. Relying on newly developed balance sheet panel data from every non-financial Russian corporation (more than 2,500 of them) between 1899 and 1914, we examine the characteristics of entering and exiti...
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作者：Pavese, Caterina; Rubolino, Enrico
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Lausanne; University of Lausanne
摘要：This paper shows that austerity spending cuts harmed student performance in standardised national tests. To identify this relationship, we use cross-municipality variation in the timing of eligibility for the Italian Domestic Stability Pact as an exogenous shifter of local public spending. We then compare test scores for students that were from the same municipality, but who were exposed to different levels of austerity cuts based on their birth year. Combining administrative data on public sp...
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作者：Feng, Ying; Lagakos, David; Rauch, James E.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California San Diego; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：We draw on household survey data from countries of all income levels and document that average unemployment rates increase with gross domestic product per capita. This is accounted for almost entirely by low-rather than high-educated workers. We interpret these facts in a model with frictional labour markets, a traditional self-employment sector, skill-biased productivity differences across countries, and unemployment benefits that become more generous with development. A calibrated version of...
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作者：L'Huillier, Jean-Paul; Phelan, Gregory; Wieman, Hunter
作者单位：Brandeis University; Williams College; Princeton University; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Cleveland
摘要：Big technological improvements in a new, secondary sector lead to a period of excitement about the future prospects of the overall economy, generating boom-bust dynamics propagating through credit markets. Increased future capital prices relax collateral constraints today, leading to a boom before the realisation of the shock. But reallocation of capital toward the secondary sector when the shock hits leads to a bust going forward. These cycles are perfectly foreseen in our model, making them ...
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作者：Giuntella, Osea; Lu, Yi; Wang, Tianyi
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research; Tsinghua University; University of Toronto; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：We analyse the effects of exposure to industrial robots on labour market adjustments, exploring longitudinal household data from China. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in robot exposure led to a decline in labour force participation (-1%), employment (-7%) and hourly earnings (-8%) of Chinese workers. At the same time, among those who kept working, robot exposure increased the number of hours worked by 8%. These effects were concentrated among the less educated and larger among ...
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作者：Sandner, Malte; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gonzalez, Libertad
作者单位：Leibniz University Hannover; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
摘要：We investigate the impact of public childcare provision on the incidence of severe child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a reform that expanded early childcare in Germany, generating large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county level. Using high-quality administrative data covering all reported cases of child maltreatment in Germany by county and year, we find that an increase in childcare slots by one percentage point in a county reduced child maltreat...
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作者：Theloudis, Alexandros; Velilla, Jorge; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Zaragoza; Columbia University
摘要：The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a life-cycle collective model of the household, through which it characterises behaviour in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited and no commitment. We propose a test that distinguishes between all three types based on how contemporaneous and historical news affect household behaviour. Our test permits heterogeneity in the degree of commitment across househo...
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作者：Abraham, Filip; Bormans, Yannick; Konings, Jozef; Roeger, Werner
作者单位：KU Leuven; Vlerick Business School; Nazarbayev University; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：This paper provides a new method to estimate price-cost margins in the presence of fixed costs of production. By exploiting properties of the primal and dual sales-based and cost-based Solow residuals, we are able to simultaneously estimate price-cost margins and the share of fixed costs in total costs for each input. Ignoring fixed costs in production underestimates price-cost margins and overestimates excess profit shares. Using a thirty-year panel of Belgian firms, we estimate price-cost ma...
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作者：Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas; Spiritus, Kevin; Rusu, Alexandra, V
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
