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作者：Berlinski, Samuel; Ramos, Alejandra
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank; Trinity College Dublin
摘要：This paper analyzes the effect on teacher mobility of a program that rewards excellence in teaching practices in Chile. Successful applicants receive a 6% annual wage increase for up to 10 years and an award that publicly recognizes their excellence. The paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of the public merit award. The program does not alter transitions out of teaching. However, it increases the mobility of awardees within the school system. This is cons...
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作者：Malkova, Olga
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed pensioners to receive a greater share of their pensions if they worked, resulting in a progressive elimination of benefit reduction rates. Variation in group eligibility and variation in benefit reduction rates in eastern and western regions allow for the use of several difference-in-differences frame...
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作者：Aucejo, Esteban M.; French, Jacob; Araya, Maria Paola Ugalde; Zafar, Basit
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; National Bureau of Economic Research; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, we surveyed approximately 1500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects acrossmany dimensions. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% have lost a job, internship, or job offer, and 29% expect to earn less at ag...
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作者：Clifford, Sarah; Mavrokonstantis, Panos
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study a tax enforcement policy combining elements of self-and third-party reporting. Taxpayers self-report to the authority but must file documentation issued by a third-party to corroborate claims. Exploiting salary-dependent cutoffs governing documentation requirements when claiming deductions for charitable contributions in Cyprus, we estimate that deductions increase by 0.7 pound when taxpayers can claim 1 pound more without documentation. Second, using a retroactive reform we find that...
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作者：Ganong, Peter; Noel, Pascal; Vavra, Joseph
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：We usemicro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform$600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment Compensation have statutory replacement rates above 100%, meaning that they are eligible for benefits which exceed lost wages. The median statuto...
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作者：Jiang, Junyan; Zhang, Muyang
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Existing research on distributive politics mainly focuses on the influence of electoral competition between political parties, but less is known about non-electoral mechanisms of resource allocation inside a dominant party. This study examines how informal patron-client networks within the ruling Communist Party shape the distribution of intergovernmental transfers in China, a major one-party regime. Using a new dataset on city-level fiscal transfers and a novel method to infer informal politi...
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作者：Lavecchia, Adam M.
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：Using a search model, 1 derive a formula that links the welfare gains from the minimum wage to its effect on low-skilled labor force participation and employment. This formula shows that the minimum wage is welfare improving if pushing the low-skilled labor market tightness downwards brings it closer to its efficient level. 1 estimate the causal effect of the minimum wage on low-skilled labor force participation and employment using federal and state minimum wage variation. I discuss the polic...
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作者：Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Mueller, Daniel
作者单位：University of Innsbruck
摘要：This paper investigates in a large and heterogeneous sample the relationship between social preferences and political attitudes. Social preferences relate to political attitudes in a particular way: Selfish subjects are the extremists on the one side of the political spectrum - they are more likely to vote for a right-wing party, less inclined to favor redistribution, less likely to hold favorable views towards immigration and more likely to consider themselves right-wing than all other types....
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作者：Hernandez-Pizarro, Helena M.; Nicodemo, Catia; Lopez Casasnovas, Guillem
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; University of Oxford
摘要：This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured into discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. We provide new evidence on this issue, focusing on a case where strategic actions are taken by healthcare providers (HCPs). We show that HCPs adjust the score of claimants in long-term care needs assessments, allowing claimants to access higher levels of care benefits. This adjustment does not bri...
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作者：Kaplan, Greg; Mitman, Kurt; Violante, Giovanni L.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Princeton University
摘要：In an influential paper, Mian, Rao, and Sufi (2013) exploit geographic variation to measure the effect of the fall in housing net worth on household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary house price and proprietary expenditure data and therefore not easily replicable. We use alternative data on a subset of non-durable goods and on house prices, which are more easily accessible, to replicate their study. When estimating their same specifi...
