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作者：Burchardi, Konrad; de Quidt, Jonathan; Gulesci, Selim; Sulaiman, Munshi
作者单位：Stockholm University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Trinity College Dublin; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University
摘要：We use a cash transfer to relax households' borrowing constraints, then elicit their willingness to pay for a remedial education programme offering tutoring and life skills training. Lottery losers were willing to pay 3,300 Tanzanian Shillings for the programme, which is 7% of per capita monthly expenditures. For those identified at baseline as able to borrow, willingness to pay increases by 3% upon winning a lottery prize of 3,200 Tanzanian Shillings. For those unable to borrow, willingness t...
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作者：Webb, Duncan
作者单位：Paris School of Economics; Paris School of Economics
摘要：Early-life circumstances are important determinants of long-run human capital and well-being outcomes. The first 1,000 days of life are often cited as a 'critical period' for child development, but this notion has rarely been directly tested. In a setting where children are potentially subject to shocks in every year of their childhood, I estimate the impact of early-life weather shocks on adult cognitive and socioemotional outcomes for individuals born in rural Indonesia between 1988 and 2000...
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作者：Chakraborty, Priyanka; Serra, Danila
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：Decisions made by leaders please some people and upset others. We examine whether the possibility of backlash has a differential impact on men's and women's self-selection into leadership roles, and their decisions as leaders. In a laboratory experiment that simulates corporate decision-making, we find that women are significantly less likely to self-select into a leadership position when they can receive backlash. Once in a leadership role, women get more backlash. There are some gender diffe...
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作者：Mehmood, Sultan; Ali, Bakhtawar
摘要：We use data from Pakistan to establish a reciprocal exchange relationship between the judiciary and the government. We document large transfers in the form of expensive real estate from the government to the judiciary, and reciprocation in the form of pro-government rulings from the judiciary to the government. Our estimates indicate that the allocation of houses to judges increases pro-government rulings and reduces decisions on case merits. The allocation also incurs a cumulative cost of 0.0...
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作者：Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason T.; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Bocconi University; University of Oxford; University of Antwerp
摘要：We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard commitment devices to high-risk men in Malawi. Appointments more than double testing rates, with effects concentrated among those who demand commitment. In contrast, most men who take up hard commitments l...
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作者：Loumeau, Gabriel
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This paper studies the performance of New Towns, that is, planned large urban sub-centres, as a central tool to accommodate the global rise in urbanisation. A spatial quantifiable general equilibrium framework suitable to study large-scale urban master plans is presented. The framework is then used to investigate the equilibrium effects of five New Towns developed in the 1970s in Paris's metropolitan area. By 2015, the development of New Towns appears to have increased metropolitan population ...
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作者：Jelveh, Zubin; Kogut, Bruce; Naidu, Suresh
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in economics. We estimate journal-specific effects on ...
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作者：Quinn, Martin; de Matos, Miguel Godinho; Peukert, Christian
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; University of Lausanne
摘要：We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-like-at-home regulation, which has drastically reduced the price of accessing the mobile Internet for residents of the European Economic Area when travelling abroad in the European Economic Area. Our estimates using individual-level consumption data suggest that consumer surplus increased by around euro2.44 per user and travel day. We show that around 40% of the consumer surplus gains originated from a reduction in deadweight loss, that is, new users...
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作者：Hagen, Martin
作者单位：CUNEF Universidad
摘要：This paper introduces a new mechanism to distribute refugees within the European Union. The usual approach of assigning mandatory refugee quotas has been heavily opposed by several countries. Our mechanism adjusts these quotas to countries' preferences on immigration. All countries become weakly better off, even though they do not exchange monetary transfers, which are ethically controversial. We formally model refugee relocation as a division problem with single-peaked preferences. Our 'quota...
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作者：Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
作者单位：University of Basel; University of Basel; University of St Gallen
摘要：We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the more special interest money they receive from groups favouring the opposite position. The latter effect is significantly larger when less attention is paid to politics due to distraction by exogenous newsw...
