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作者：Fabregas, Raissa; Zanoni, Wladimir
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We conduct an experiment with human resources recruiters in Ecuador to investigate the extent to which Venezuelan migrants are penalized in the formal labor market, despite being from a population that shares cultural, historical, and linguistic characteristics with natives and has, on average, higher levels of education. Recruiters were tasked with evaluating pairs of candidate profiles for different jobs, proposing salaries for each, and making hiring recommendations. Candidate profiles were...
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作者：Lonsky, Jakub
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：This paper studies the origins and consequences of the Russian mafia (vory-v-zakone). Using a unique web scraped dataset containing detailed biographies of more than 5,000 mafia leaders, I first show that the Russian mafia originated in the Soviet Gulag, and could be found near the camps' initial locations throughout the 1990s Russia. Then, using an instrumental variable approach that exploits the proximity of the Russian mafia to the camps, I show that Russian communities with mafia presence ...
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作者：Carey, Colleen; Daly, Michael; Li, Jing
作者单位：Cornell University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Washington
摘要：Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships on the prescribing of physician-administered cancer drugs in Medicare. We find that prescribing of the associated drug increases 4% in the twelve months after a payment is received, with the increase beginning sharply in the month of payment and fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower predicted mortality. ...
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作者：Hamdi, Naser; Kalda, Ankit; Sovich, David
作者单位：Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); Indiana University of Pennsylvania; University of Kentucky
摘要：We examine how the withdrawal of the largest expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in United States history affected job-finding, demand for other government assistance, and credit defaults. Using administrative UI data merged with credit records and applications for Medicaid and SNAP, we show that UI withdrawal led to an increase in job-finding that was most pronounced among financially constrained individuals with limited available credit. The cost savings from higher job-finding...
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作者：Mergele, Lukas; Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; Universite Libre de Bruxelles; University of Bremen; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
摘要：Departing from communism, East Germany witnessed history's most extensive privatization program. While the program sparked global interest as a blueprint for economic transformation, its effectiveness remains disputed. Using unique firm-level data, we examine the program's objective to privatize the most competitive firms. We document that firms with higher baseline productivity are more likely to be privatized, yield higher prices, are more often acquired by West Germans, and are more likely ...
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作者：Baylis, Patrick; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Mullins, Jamie T.; Obradovich, Nick
作者单位：University of British Columbia; University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Inc.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We study whether households engage in climate-related migration in the United States, a country where most of the population does not regularly experience natural disasters or work in climate-exposed industries. With comprehensive, long-run data from both the Census and tax filings, we document that warm temperatures induce net out-migration, while cooler temperatures do not. By comparing estimates from models using different lengths of temporal variation, we further show that migration is a m...
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作者：Bauer, Daniel; Lakdawalla, Darius; Reif, Julian
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Southern California; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：We extend the conventional life-cycle framework for valuing health and longevity improvements to a stochastic setting with multiple health states and apply it to data on mortality, quality of life, labor earnings, and medical spending for adults with different comorbidities. We find that sick adults are willing to pay nearly twice as much per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) to reduce mortality risk as healthy adults, and that reducing the risk of serious illness is valued similarly to reduci...
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作者：Domenech-Arumi, Gerard
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：I study the effects of neighborhood-level inequality on perceived national-level inequality and preferences for redistribution. I construct a novel measure of local inequality using geolocated housing data and elicit perceptions and preferences from an original survey conducted in Barcelona. Local inequality is positively associated with perceived inequality but not with preferences for redistribution. I address endogenous sorting by exploiting quasi-random variation in exposure to new apartme...
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作者：Robinson, Sarah; Tazhitdinova, Alisa
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We analyze the evolution of U.S. state tax rates since 1910 and state tax revenues from 1942 until 2022. Tax policy shifted rapidly at the beginning of the 20th century, but in many ways has remained remarkably stable over the past fifty years. Even as tax rates change frequently and vary widely across states, the degree of heterogeneity across states in rates and revenues is very similar over time. We document two key insights for empirical researchers using variation in tax policy for identi...
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作者：Zhao, Hao; Porter, David
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Chapman University System; Chapman University
摘要：The efficiency of inter-temporal resource allocation in a rights-based common-pool resource management system can be compromised by a stock externality. This occurs when one user's extraction depletes the resource stock and then raises future harvesting costs for all users. This paper introduces a vote-and-trade (VAT) mechanism, an enhancement to standard cap-and-trade (CAT), to correct this inefficiency. VAT operates in two stages: first, resource users vote to set a binding, period-specific ...
