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作者：Feng, Josh
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：I use temporal discontinuities in choice sets to identify history dependence in drug demand, finding large and long-term effects. Quasi-randomly assigning a patient to a drug today increases the probability she is taking the same drug four years later by 54 percentage points. History dependence is stronger in patients taking multiple medications and weaker in drugs that are significantly more effective than substitutes. It is also weaker in generics and line extensions, driven by switching fro...
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作者：Breinlich, Holger; Novy, Dennis; Santos Silva, J. M. C.
作者单位：University of Surrey; University of Warwick
摘要：Gravity equations are an important tool in empirical international trade research. We study to what extent sector-level parameters can be recovered from aggregate gravity equations estimated via Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood. We show that in the leading case where trade cost regressors do not vary at the sector level, estimates obtained with aggregate data have a clear interpretation as a weighted average of sectoral elasticities. Otherwise the estimates are biased, but researchers may pos...
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作者：Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Arendt, Jacob Nielsen; Bolvig, Iben
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and a higher probability of working in complex jobs, consistent with language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform, producing the results.
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作者：Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar
作者单位：Northeastern University; Wellesley College
摘要：We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men in districts facing larger tariff reductions experienced a significant decline in paid employment, whereas women in harder-hit districts increased their entry into the labor force...
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作者：Behrens, Kristian; Boualam, Brahim; Martin, Julien; Mayneris, Florian
作者单位：University of Quebec; University of Quebec Montreal; HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Statistics Canada
摘要：Little is known about where hotspots of gentrification emerge within a city and the role that some types of businesses play in the process. We develop a method to detect the sectors whose presence heralds the process of gentrification in a neighborhood. We show that these sectors, mostly found in cultural and creative industries, help to anticipate neighborhood change and that their predictive power complements that of traditional gentrification determinants. We also examine mechanisms related...
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作者：Lin, Jianjing
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：This paper explores the adoption choice of electronic medical records by U.S. hospitals, which could exhibit strategic complements or substitutes. I find complementarities in adoption through a reduced-form analysis with instruments for unobserved market characteristics. I further develop a dynamic oligopoly model to allow for strategic timing incentives that are missing in the static model. Adopting a dominant local vendor could increase per period profits from adoption by 9.2% over choosing ...
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作者：Christensen, Peter; Francisco, Paul; Myers, Erica; Souza, Mateus
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Calgary; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：Evaluations of energy efficiency programs reveal that realized savings consistently fall short of projections. We decompose this performance wedge using data from the Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance Program (IHWAP) and a machine learning-based event study research design. We find that bias in engineering models can account for up to 41% of the wedge, primarily from overestimated savings in wall insulation. Heterogeneity in workmanship can also account for a large fraction (43%) of the ...
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作者：Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi; Vecci, Joseph
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Kent; University of Notre Dame; University of Gothenburg
摘要：This paper examines policy effectiveness as a function of leader identity. We experimentally vary leader religious identity in a coordination game implemented in India and focus on citizen reactions to leader identity, controlling for leader actions. We find that minority leaders improve coordination, and majority leaders do not. Alternative treatment arms reveal that affirmative action for minorities reverses this result, while intergroup contact improves the effectiveness of leaders of both ...
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作者：Brockmeyer, Anne; Do, Quy-Toan; Joubert, Clement; Bhatia, Kartika; Jelil, Mohamed Abdel
作者单位：The World Bank; University of London; University College London; London School Economics & Political Science; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); The World Bank; The World Bank
摘要：Global terrorist organizations attract radicalized individuals across borders and constitute a threat for both sending and receiving countries. We use unique personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) to show that unemployment in sending countries is associated with the number of transnational terrorist recruits from these countries. The relationship is spatially heterogeneous, which is most plausibly attributable to travel costs. We argue that poor labor market op...
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作者：Koenig, Christoph; Schindler, David
作者单位：University of Bristol; Tilburg University; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using variation from a six-month countrywide gun demand shock in 2012/2013, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales. Our findings indicate that this is likely driven by comparatively lower purchases among impulsive consumers. We then demonstrate that states with purchase delays also witnessed comparatively 2% lower homicide rates during the sa...
