Review of Economics and Statistics

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• Testing the Water: Drinking Water Quality, Public Notification, and Child Outcomes AI翻译
  作者：Marcus, Michelle
  作者单位：Vanderbilt University
  摘要：Health-based drinking water violations affect about one in twelve Americans annually, yet the benefits of drinking water regulation are not well understood. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation in water quality violation timing to estimate the impacts on avoidance behavior and child outcomes. Using purchases of bottled water and common stomach remedies, emergency room visits for gastrointestinal illness, and school absences, I provide a comprehensive calculation of costs associated with poo...
• Resource Discoveries, FDI Bonanzas, and Local Multipliers: Evidence from Mozambique AI翻译
  作者：Toews, Gerhard; Vezina, Pierre-Louis
  作者单位：New Economic School; University of London; King's College London
  摘要：We show that giant and unpredictable oil and gas discoveries trigger FDI bonanzas. Across developing countries, we document a 56% increase in FDI in the two years following a giant discovery. These booms are driven by new projects in sectors such as manufacturing, retail, services, and construction. To assess the job creation effects of one such FDI bonanza in Mozambique, we combine concurrent waves of household surveys and firm censuses and estimate the local job multiplier of FDI. Our estima...
• Gender and Willingness to Lead: Does the Gender Composition of Teams Matter? AI翻译
  作者：Born, Andreas; Ranehill, Eva; Sandberg, Anna
  作者单位：Spotify; University of Gothenburg; Stockholm University
  摘要：We explore how team gender composition affects willingness to lead by randomly assigning participants in an experiment to male- or female-majority teams. Irrespective of team gender composition, men are substantially more willing than women to lead their team. The pooled sample, and women separately, are more willing to lead female- than male-majority teams. An analysis of mechanisms reveals that a large share of the negative effect of male-majority teams on women's leadership aspirations is a...
• The Long-Term Effect of Military Conscription on Personality and Beliefs AI翻译
  作者：Ertola Navajas, Gabriela; Lopez Villalba, Paula A.; Rossi, Martin A.; Vazquez, Antonia
  作者单位：Universidad de San Andres Argentina
  摘要：We estimate the causal impact of military conscription on long-term beliefs and personality traits. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we exploit the conscription lottery in Argentina. We combine administrative data from the conscription lottery with data from a survey we designed on beliefs and personality traits. We find that men who were conscripted are more likely to adopt a military mind-set and that the effect is long lasting. Given the many people who go through military conscri...
• Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products AI翻译
  作者：Aparicio, Diego; Cavallo, Alberto
  作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：We study the impact of targeted price controls on supermarket products in Argentina. Using daily prices for controlled and noncontrolled goods, we examine the effects on inflation, product availability, entry and exit, and price dispersion. First, price controls have only a small and temporary effect on inflation that reverses soon after the controls are lifted. Second, contrary to common belief, controlled goods are consistently available for sale. Third, firms respond by introducing new vari...
• Environmental Regulations and the Cleanup of Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence AI翻译
  作者：Najjar, Nouri; Cherniwchan, Jevan
  作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Carleton University
  摘要：For much of the industrialized world, pollution from manufacturing has been falling despite increased output. We examine how air quality standards---a common environmental regulation---have contributed to this cleanup of manufacturing. We develop a general equilibrium model to show how air quality standards can lead to a cleanup by causing reductions in plant emission intensity, relative changes in plant output, and plant entry and exit. We provide quasi-experimental evidence from Canada to hi...
• The Impact of Open Access Mandates on Invention AI翻译
  作者：Bryan, Kevin A.; Ozcan, Yasin
  作者单位：University of Toronto; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：How do barriers to the diffusion of academic research affect innovation? In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandated free online availability of funded research. This policy caused a 50 percentage point increase in free access to funded articles. We introduce a novel measure, in-text patent citations, to study how this mandate affected industry use of academic science. After 2008, patents cite NIH-funded research 12% to 27% more often. Nonfunded research, funded research in journ...
• The Race Between Deterrence and Displacement: Theory and Evidence from Bank Robberies AI翻译
  作者：Maheshri, Vikram; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni
  作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Turin; University of Essex
  摘要：Security measures that deter crime may unwittingly displace it to neighboring areas, but evidence of displacement is scarce. We exploit precise information on the timing and locations of all Italian bank robberies and security guard hirings over a decade to estimate deterrence and displacement effects of guards. A guard lowers the likelihood a bank is robbed by 35% to 40%. Over half of this reduction is displaced to nearby unguarded banks. Theory suggests optimal policy to mitigate this spillo...
• Are Consumers' Spending Decisions in Line with A Euler Equation? AI翻译
  作者：Drager, Lena; Nghiem, Giang
  作者单位：Leibniz University Hannover; Goethe University Frankfurt; Leibniz University Hannover
  摘要：Evaluating a new survey of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption spending decisions are formed according to a Euler equation model. We find that consumers are more likely to increase current spending if they plan to increase spending in the future and if they expect higher inflation. In the subsample of financially literate households, we find an additional negative effect of nominal interest rate expectations. The effects of macroeconomic expectations become stronger if con...
• Improving Child Health and Cognition: Evidence from a School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India AI翻译
  作者：Kramer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian
  作者单位：Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University; University of Gottingen
  摘要：We present experimental evidence on the impact of the use of double-fortified salt in school meals on anemia, cognition, and the learning outcomes of primary school children in rural Bihar, one of the poorest regions of India. We find that a year-long intervention had statistically significant positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced anemia by 20%; however, these health gains did not translate into significant impacts on cognitive performance, test scores, and school attendance. Treat...