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作者：Getik, Demid
作者单位：Durham University
摘要：The share of couples where the wife outearns the husband is increasing globally. In this paper, I examine how this dynamic affects mental health. Using data on the 2001 marital cohort in Sweden, I show that while mental health is positively associated with own and spousal income, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income. In the most conservative specification, the wife starting to earn more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8%-11%. This represents a signific...
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作者：Cussen, Diego; Montero, Juan-Pablo
作者单位：New York University; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Aalto University
摘要：Collusion is deemed unlikely in wholesale markets where upstream suppliers and intermediate buyers privately negotiate discounts off list prices and sales quotas are unfeasible. However, many wholesale markets include both small and large buyers who compete in the retail market. We study the role of publicly announced list prices in this wholesale-retail setting, whether suppliers collude or compete. When suppliers collude, public announcements of list prices extend the possibility of collusio...
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作者：Battiston, Giacomo; Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; Pinotti, Paolo
作者单位：University of Milan; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Bocconi University
摘要：We show that the Mexican war on drugs pushed drug cartels into large-scale oil theft. We propose a simple model in which government crackdowns on one criminal sector induce criminal organisations to invest in a new sector. When entering the new sector, challenger organisations with a residual share of the market in the traditional sector may leapfrog incumbent organisations. We bring the model to the data using detailed information on drug cartel presence, oil pipelines and illegal oil taps ac...
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作者：Riahi, Ideen A.
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Advances in evolutionary theories (the Extended Synthesis) demonstrate that organisms systematically modify environments in ways that influence their own and other species' evolution. This paper utilises these theories to examine the economic consequences of human dispersal from Africa. Evidence shows that early humans' dispersal affected the adaptability of animal species to human environments and, through this, the extinction of large mammals during Homo sapiens' out-of-Africa migration. Emp...
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作者：Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto; Simorangkir, Rhita P. B.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; National University of Singapore
摘要：We use space- and time-resolved mobility data to assess how heat impacts Singapore, a rich city state and arguably a harbinger of what is to come in the urbanising tropics. Singapore's offices, factories, malls, buses and trains are widely air conditioned, its public schools less so. We document increased attendance and commuting to workplaces, malls and the more air-conditioned schools on hotter relative to cooler days, particularly by low-income residents with limited use of adaptive technol...
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作者：Cannella, Mario; Makarin, Alexey; Pique, Ricardo
作者单位：European Central Bank; Bank of Italy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We explore the legacy of foreign state repression by using the case of the de facto annexed Nazi operational zones in Italy and a spatial regression discontinuity design. We show that the operational zones experienced harsher political persecution and violence. After the war, these exhibited greater support for radical opposition at the expense of the moderate ruling party. Consistent with a mechanism of greater distrust in the government, formerly annexed areas are more likely to vote against...
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作者：Coutts, Alexander; Gerhards, Leonie; Murad, Zahra
作者单位：York University - Canada; University of London; King's College London; University of Portsmouth; Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic; Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC)
摘要：People often receive feedback influenced by external factors, yet little is known about how this affects self-serving biases. Our theoretical model explores how multi-dimensional uncertainty allows additional degrees of freedom for self-serving bias. In our primary experiment, feedback combining an individual's ability and a teammate's ability leads to biased belief updating. However, in a follow-up experiment with a random fundamental replacing the teammate, unbiased updating occurs. A valida...
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作者：Litina, Anastasia; Fernandez, Eric Roca
作者单位：University of Macedonia; Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
摘要：This paper relates curiosity to economic development through its impact on human capital formation and technological advancement in pre-modern times. More specifically, we propose that exposure to inexplicable phenomena prompts curiosity and thinking in an attempt to comprehend these mysteries, thus raising human capital and technology, and, ultimately, fostering growth. We focus on solar eclipses as one particular trigger of curiosity and empirically establish a robust relationship between th...
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作者：Fontes, L. F.; Mrejen, M.; Rache, B.; Rocha, R.
作者单位：Insper; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This paper assesses the effects of adverse economic shocks on children's mental health. We rely on the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort Study for mental conditions, which provides an unprecedented array of data on psychopathology, life events, family medical history as well as parental behaviour and polygenic scores for mental disorders over a ten-year period. Our empirical strategy exploits parental job loss events over time in a difference-in-differences framework. We document that parental job lo...
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作者：Bietenbeck, Jan
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：I provide evidence of social spillovers of personality by showing that being in class with motivated peers affects educational success. I first document that academic motivation, a key aspect of personality in the context of education, predicts own achievement, classroom behaviour, the high school grade point average and college-test taking among elementary school students. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I then show that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects a...
