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作者：Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A.
作者单位：University of Zurich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Zurich; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Although resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resources and inter-regional transfers in a model of democratic secession, and show that relative regional income correlates positively with secessionist party success in a large panel of regions. To establish causality, our difference-in-differences and triple-differences designs exploit that Scotland and Wale...
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作者：Kellogg, Ryan
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Output-based carbon regulations-such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan-create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these distortions, output and attribute-based standards can always yield strictly greater expected welfare than flat emission standards given uncertainty in demand for output (or attributes), assuming locally constant...
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作者：Kolsrud, Jonas; Landais, Camille; Spinnewijn, Johannes
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Stockholm University
摘要：This paper measures consumption expenditures using registry data on income and asset holdings in Sweden. We show how a registry-based measure complements traditional survey measures of consumption and can alleviate some critical limitations. We describe the construction of our measure, which builds on prior work and exploits the identity coming from the household budget constraint between consumption expenditures and income net of savings. We demonstrate the value of the registry-based measure...
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作者：Landais, Camille; Spinnewijn, Johannes
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：Gonzalez, Felipe
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
摘要：Hundreds of thousands of high-school students skipped school during the 2011 student movement in Chile to protest and reform educational institutions. Using administrative data of daily school attendance I present causal evidence of complementarities in school skipping decisions within student networks in national protest days. Identification relies on partially overlapping networks and within school exposure to an inaugural college protest. A structural estimation of a coordination game with ...
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作者：Pikulina, Elena S.; Tergiman, Chloe
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Power-the ability to determine the outcomes of others-usually comes with various benefits: higher compensation, public recognition, etc. We develop a new game, the Power Game, to demonstrate that a substantial fraction of individuals enjoy the intrinsic value of power: they accept lower payoffs in exchange for power over others, without any benefits to themselves. These preferences exist independently of other components of decision rights, cannot be explained by social preferences and are not...
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作者：Daniele, Gianmarco; Galletta, Sergio; Geys, Benny
作者单位：University of Milan; University of Bergamo; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：Political scandals often trigger responses from voters and the implicated politicians. In this article, we extend the analysis to politicians who are only indirectly affected by a scandal through their affiliation with the involved party. Overcoming endogeneity concerns by analyzing the local implications of the largest national scandal in recent Italian history (Clean Hands), our main results show that local politicians withdraw support from incumbents in parties hit by Clean Hands - inducing...
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作者：Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; National Bureau of Economic Research; Indiana University System; Indiana University South Bend
摘要：This paper provides early evidence of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on minority unemployment in the United States. In the first month following March adoptions of social distancing measures by states, unemployment rose to 14.5% but a much higher 24.4% when we correct for potential data misclassification noted by the BLS. Using the official definition, unemployment in April 2020 among African-Americans rose by less than what would have been anticipated (to 16.6%) based on previous recess...
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作者：Kelly, Andrea; Lindo, Jason M.; Packham, Analisa
作者单位：Grinnell College; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; National Bureau of Economic Research; Vanderbilt University
摘要：We estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative, which provided funds to Title X clinics to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives to low-income women. We find substantial effects on childbearing, concentrated among women in zip codes within 7 miles of clinics: the initiative reduced births by approximately 20% for 15-19 year olds. We also estimate effects of extensive media coverage in 2014 and 2015, and find a substantial increase in LARC insertions, extended effects on ...
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作者：Goldin, Jacob; Homonoff, Tatiana; Patterson, Richard; Skimmyhorn, William
摘要：Deciding how much to save for retirement can be complicated. Drawing on a field experiment conducted with the Department of Defense, we study whether such complexity depresses participation in an employer-sponsored retirement saving plan. We find that simplifying one dimension of the enrollment decision, by highlighting a potential rate at which non-participants might contribute, increases participation in the plan. Similar communications that did not include a highlighted rate yield smaller e...
