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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Evans, William N.; Phillips, David C.; Ruffini, Krista
作者单位:University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame; Georgetown University; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要:Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels and private organizations have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses and the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, focusing on studies of individual-level effects from randomized controlled trial evaluations and the best quasi-experi...
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作者:Xu, Di; Ran, Florence Xiaotao
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine; Columbia University; Columbia University Teachers College; University of Delaware
摘要:Based on a novel data set that links college administrative information with earnings records from a state college system for both public two-year and four-year colleges, this study quantifies the impacts of exposure to different types of instructors during students' initial semester in college on their subsequent academic and labor market outcomes. To minimize bias from student sorting by type of instructor, we combine course-set fixed effects with an instrumental variables approach that expl...
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Cox, Robynn; Cunningham, Jamein P.
作者单位:University of Southern California; University of Memphis
摘要:This study estimates the impact of the discretionary Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program (EBMGP) on drug arrests and crime. The 1986 and 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act allocated federal funds to state and local municipalities to combat illicit drug use and violent crime associated with drug sales and trafficking. The results show that the implementation of the EBMGP resulted in an increase in police hiring, an increase in drug sales arrest rates for Blacks and Wh...
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Ruffini, Krista; Sojourner, Aaron; Wozniak, Abigail
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis; Georgetown University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要:COVID symptom screening, a new workplace practice, is already affecting many millions of American workers. As of this writing, 34 states already require, and federal guidance recommends, frequent screening of at least some employees for fever or other symptoms. This paper provides the first empirical work identifying major features of symptom screening in a broad population and exploring the trade-offs employers face in using daily symptom screening. First, we find that common symptom checkers...
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作者:Venkataramani, Atheendar S.
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
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作者:Pichler, Stefan; Wen, Katherine; Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
作者单位:Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Cornell University; Cornell University; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; University of York - UK; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要:A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well as pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in the United States. Using uniquely compiled data from administrative sources at the state-week level from 2010 to 2018 along with difference-in-differ...
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作者:Gomez, Santiago; Mejia, Daniel; Tobon, Santiago
作者单位:Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad EAFIT
摘要:From the U.S. to Colombia to China, millions of public surveillance cameras are at the core of crime prevention strategies. Yet, we know little about the effects of surveillance cameras on criminal behavior, especially in developing economies. We study an installation program in Medellin and find that the quasi-random allocation of cameras led to a decrease in crimes and arrests. With no increase in the monitoring capacity and no chance to use camera footage in prosecution, these results sugge...