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作者：Shi, Ying; Zhu, Maria
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University
摘要：The fast-growing demographic group of Asian Americans is often perceived as a model minority. This paper establishes empirical evidence of this stereotype in the context of education and then analyzes its consequences. We show that teachers rate Asian students' academic skills more favorably than observa-tionally similar White students in the same class, even after accounting for test performance and behav-ior. This contrasts with teachers' lower likelihood of favoring Black and Hispanic stude...
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作者：Fone, Zachary S.; Sabia, Joseph J.; Cesur, Resul
作者单位：United States Department of Defense; United States Air Force; United States Air Force Academy; California State University System; San Diego State University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Connecticut
摘要：The availability of higher-paying jobs for low-skilled individuals has been documented to reduce crime. This study explores the impact of one of the most prominent labor policies designed to provide higher wages for low-skilled workers - the minimum wage - on teenage and young adult arrests. Using data from the 1998-2016 Uniform Crime Reports and a difference-in-differences approach, we find that a 1 percent increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 0.2 to 0.3 percent increase in prope...
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作者：Fang, Ximeng; Goette, Lorenz; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sutter, Matthias; Tiefenbeck, Verena; Schoeb, Samuel; Staake, Thorsten
作者单位：University of Oxford; National University of Singapore; University of Cologne; Max Planck Society; University of Innsbruck; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Behavioral policy often aims at influencing behavior by mitigating biases due to, e.g., imperfect information or inattention. We study how this is affected by the simultaneous presence of multiple biases arising from different sources, through a field experiment on resource conservation in an energy-and water-intensive everyday activity (showering). One intervention, shower energy reports, primarily targeted knowledge about environmental impacts; another intervention, real-time feedback, prima...
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作者：Abraham, Arpad; Gottardi, Piero; Hubmer, Joachim; Mayr, Lukas
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of Essex; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Pennsylvania; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We revisit the classical result that in a closed economy the incidence of corporate taxes on labor is approximately zero. We consider a rich general equilibrium framework, where agents differ in the level of their wealth as well as in their managerial and working ability. Potential entrepreneurs go through all the key decisions affected by corporate tax changes: the choice of (i) occupation, (ii) organizational form, (iii) investment, and (iv) financing structure. We allow both for the presenc...
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作者：Kenedi, Gustave; Sirugue, Louis
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Paris School of Economics; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：We provide new estimates of intergenerational income mobility in France for children born in the 1970s using rich administrative data. Since parents' incomes are not observed, we employ a two-sample two stage least squares estimation. We show, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, that this method slightly underestimates rank-based measures of intergenerational persistence. Our results suggest France is characterized by a strong persistence relative to other developed countries. 9.7% of ch...
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作者：Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：This paper uses schooling decisions to estimate curvature in utility of consumption in developing countries. We show that the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption (EMUC) can be recovered from three sufficient statistics: (1) the price effect of schooling; (2) the income effect of schooling; and (3) the consumption cost of sending a child to school. We estimate the consumption cost of schooling using variation from the randomized roll-out of Progresa, a conditional cash transfer progra...
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作者：Caprini, Giulia
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：I study the impact of politicians' media exposure in campaign on their vote share, exploiting an exoge-nous change in coverage during the Italian 2013 electoral race. Right before the election, the Pope Benedict XVI suddenly resigned and broadcast coverage of politics markedly dropped. Only five days of lower visibility of the right-wing leader and TV tycoon Berlusconi (-26 percentage points) caused a 2 percentage points dip in his vote share, and lead to his defeat by 0.4 percentage points. F...
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作者：Holz, Justin E.; List, John A.; Zentner, Alejandro; Cardoza, Marvin; Zentner, Joaquin E.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Chicago; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Inter-American Development Bank; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This paper uses a natural field experiment to examine the effectiveness of deterrence messages on tax compliance in the Dominican Republic. In collaboration with the tax authority, we sent messages to 56,310 firms that collectively paid $700 million in the year before the experiment. Our field experiment complements a tax enforcement reform in the Dominican Republic a year before our intervention. Sharing information about prison sentences or the public disclosure of evasion arising from the t...
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作者：Phipps, Aaron; Amaya, Alexander
摘要：Given the simultaneous rise in time-to-graduation and college GPA, it may be that students reduce their course load to improve their performance. Yet, evidence to date only shows increased course loads increase GPA. We provide a model showing many unobservable factors - beyond student ability - can generate a positive relationship between course load and GPA unless researchers control student schedules. West Point regularly implements the ideal experiment by randomly modifying student schedule...
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作者：Aucejo, Esteban M.; French, Jacob; Zafar, Basit
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; National Bureau of Economic Research; New York University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Quantifying the consumption value of college - the utility students derive from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities - has been challenging. We leverage the COVID-19 shock to elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under different costs and possible states of the world, that vary in terms of class formats (i.e., in-person vs. remote instruction) and restrictions to campus social life. We show how such data can be used to recover students' willingn...
