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作者：Keys, Benjamin J.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper studies the role of job displacement in the household bankruptcy decision. Using an event-study methodology, I find that NLSY respondents are over three times more likely to file for bankruptcy immediately following a job loss. Using county-level data, I find similar magnitudes in the aggregate, with significant effects lasting two to three years. The results suggest that unemployment spells can have significant long-term consequences on households' credit market outcomes.
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作者：Utar, Hale
作者单位：University of Bielefeld; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：Using employee-employer matched data, I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade. I derive causal effects by exploiting the dismantling of the Multifiber Arrangement quotas on products from China upon its WTO accession as a quasi-natural experiment and use within-industry, within-occupation heterogeneity in workers' exposure to this shock. I find significant negative long-run effects on...
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作者：Andersson, Fredrik; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Pollakowski, Henry O.; Weinberg, Daniel H.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Harvard University
摘要：This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employeremployee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. We focus on a group of job searchers for plausibly exogenous reasons: lower-income workers with strong labor force attachment separated during a mass layoff. Our results support the spatial mismatch hypothesis. We find tha...
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作者：Blattman, Christopher; Emeriau, Mathilde; Fiala, Nathan
作者单位：University of Chicago; Stanford University; Makerere University; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：High-impact policies may not lead to support for the political party that introduces them. In 2008, Uganda's government encouraged groups of youth to submit proposals to start enterprises. Of 535 eligible groups, a random 265 received grants of nearly $400 per person. Prior work showed that after four years, the Youth Opportunities Program raised employment by 17% and earnings by 38%. Here we show that recipients were no more likely to support the ruling party in elections. Rather, recipients ...
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作者：Byrne, David P.; La Nauze, Andrea; Martin, Leslie A.
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：We document how imperfect information generates heterogeneous effects in information treatments with personalized high-frequency feedback and peer comparisons. In our field experiment in retail electricity, we find that high- and low-energy users symmetrically underestimate and overestimate their relative energy use pretreatment. Responses to personalized feedback, however, are asymmetric. Households that overestimate their relative use and low users both respond by consuming more. These boome...
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作者：Couture, Victor; Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Brown University
摘要：We investigate determinants of driving speed in large U.S. cities. We first estimate city-level supply functions for travel in an econometric framework where the supply and demand for travel are explicit. These estimations allow us to calculate an index of driving speed and to rank cities by driving speed. Our data suggest that a congestion tax of about 3.5 cents per kilometer yields welfare gains of about $30 billion per year, that centralized cities are slower, that cities with ring roads ar...
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作者：Khwaja, Asim I.; Mangal, Kunal
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作者：l'Haridon, Olivier; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Aycinena, Diego; Bandur, Agustinus; Belianin, Alexis; Cingl, Lubomir; Kothiyal, Amit; Martinsson, Peter
作者单位：Universite de Rennes; University of Reading; National University of Rosario; Universitas Bina Nusantara; HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Prague University of Economics & Business; Max Planck Society; University of Gothenburg; Linkoping University
摘要：Ambiguity attitudes have been prominently used in economic models, but we still know little about their demographic correlates or their generalizability beyond the West. We analyze the ambiguity attitudes of almost 3,000 students across thirty countries. For gains, we find ambiguity aversion everywhere, while ambiguity aversion is much weaker for losses. Ambiguity attitudes change systematically with probabilities for both gains and losses. Much of the between-country variation can be explaine...
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作者：Dower, Paul Castaneda; Markevich, Andrei
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; New Economic School
摘要：We exploit a quasi-natural experiment of military draftees in Russia during World War I to examine the effects of a massive, negative labor shock on agricultural production. Employing a novel district-level panel data set, we find that mass mobilization produces a dramatic decrease in cultivated area. Surprisingly, farms with communal land tenure exhibit greater resilience to the labor shock than private farms. The resilience stems from peasants reallocating labor in favor of the commune becau...
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作者：Curtis, E. Mark
作者单位：Wake Forest University
摘要：This paper tests how a major cap-and-trade program, known as the NOx budget trading program (NBP), affected labor markets in the manufacturing sector. The cap-and-trade program dramatically decreased levels of NOx emissions and added substantial costs to regulated firms. Using a triple-differences approach, I examine how labor markets adjusted in manufacturing industries that were exposed to the program. I find that overall employment in the manufacturing sector dropped by 1.3%, with energy-in...
