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作者：Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja
作者单位：University of Granada; University of Cambridge; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Johannes Kepler University Linz
摘要：We connect gender disparities in research output and collaboration patterns in economics. We first document large gender gaps in research output. These gaps persist across fifty years despite a significant increase in the fraction of women in economics during that time. We further show that output differences are closely related to differences in the coauthorship networks of men and women: women have fewer collaborators, collaborate more often with the same coauthors, and a higher fraction of ...
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作者：Aggarwal, Shilpa; Brailovskaya, Valentina; Robinson, Jonathan
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We test whether the provision of multiple labeled savings accounts affects savings and downstream outcomes in an experiment with 761 microentrepreneurs in urban Malawi. Treatment respondents received one or multiple savings accounts, in the form of lockboxes or mobile money. We find that while providing additional boxes increased savings by 40%, technical issues marred the efficacy of a second mobile money account. Data from novel high-frequency surveys suggest that both types of accounts had ...
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作者：Cotofan, Maria; Cassar, Lea; Dur, Robert; Meier, Stephan
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Regensburg; Tinbergen Institute; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Columbia University
摘要：Preferences for monetary and nonmonetary job attributes are important for understanding workers' motivation and the organization of work. Little is known, however, about how those job preferences are formed. We study how macroeconomic conditions when young shape workers' job preferences for life. Using variation in income-per-capita across U.S. regions and over time since the 1920s, we find that job preferences vary in systematic ways with experienced macroeconomic conditions during young adul...
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作者：Hansen, Christian; Kozbur, Damian; Misra, Sanjog
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Zurich
摘要：This paper proposes a procedure for assessing the sensitivity of inferential conclusions for functionals of sparse high-dimensional models following model selection. The proposed procedure is called targeted undersmoothing. Functionals considered include dense functionals that may depend on many or all elements of the high-dimensional parameter vector. The sensitivity analysis is based on systematic enlargements of an initially selected model. By varying the enlargements, one can conduct sensi...
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作者：Leard, Benjamin; Linn, Joshua; Zhou, Yichen Christy
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Clemson University
摘要：During historical periods in which U.S. fuel economy standards were unchanging, automakers increased performance but not fuel economy, contrasting with recent periods of tightening standards and rising fuel economy. This paper evaluates the welfare consequences of automakers forgoing performance increases to raise fuel economy as standards have tightened since 2012. Using a unique data set and a novel approach to account for fuel economy and performance endogeneity, we find undervaluation of f...
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作者：Arteaga, Carolina
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been convicted of a crime in Colombia, and link the educational attainment of their children. I exploit exogenous variation resulting from the random assignment of judges and extend the standard framework to incorporate both conviction and incarceration decisions. I show that the effect of incarceration for a given conviction thr...
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作者：Alan, Sule; Duysak, Enes; Kubilay, Elif; Mumcu, Ipek
作者单位：European University Institute; University of Essex; University of Exeter
摘要：Using data on primary school children and their teachers, we show that teachers who hold prejudicial attitudes towards an ethnic group create socially and spatially segregated classrooms. Leveraging a natural experiment where newly arrived refugee children are randomly assigned to teachers within schools, we find that teachers' ethnic prejudice, measured by an implicit association test, significantly lowers the prevalence of interethnic social links, increases homophilic ties among host childr...
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作者：Mann, Katja; Puettmann, Lukas
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：We provide a new measure of automation based on patents and study its employment effects. Classifying all U.S. patents granted between 1976 and 2014 as automation or nonautomation patents, we document a strong rise in the number and share of automation patents. We link patents to their industries of use and to commuting zones. To estimate the effect of automation, we use an instrumental variables strategy that relies on innovations developed independently from U.S. labor market trends. We find...
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作者：Gruber, Jonathan; Hoe, Thomas P.; Stoye, George
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Cornell University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study how emergency department (ED) doctors respond to incentives to reduce wait times. We use bunching techniques to study an English policy that imposed strong incentives to treat patients within four hours. The policy reduced time spent in the ED by 21 minutes for affected patients yet caused doctors to increase treatment intensity and admit more patients. We find a striking 14% reduction in mortality. Analysis of patient severity and hospital crowding strongly suggests it is the wait ti...
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作者：Ganapati, Sharat; Mckibbin, Rebecca
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Georgetown University; University of Sydney
摘要：Wide dispersion is seen in pharmaceutical prices across countries with comparable quality standards. Under monopoly, off-patent and generic drug prices are at least four times higher in the United States than in comparable English-speaking high-income countries. With five or more competitors, off-patent drug prices are similar or lower. Our analysis shows that differential U.S. markups are largely driven by the market power of drug suppliers and are not due to wholesale intermediaries or pharm...
