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作者：Lehrer, Nadine
作者单位：Chatham University
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作者：Bradford, Ashley C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Nuisance ordinances are a class of municipal law that are framed as a way to reduce both police burden and unwanted behaviors such as repeated calls to 911, drug-related activity, and disorderly conduct. This study explores the effect of nuisance ordinances on drug-related mortality rates in Ohio and surrounding commuting zones from 1999 to 2017. Using a modern difference-in-differences framework, I find that these laws cause an increase in opioid-, alcohol-, and cocaine-related overdose morta...
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作者：Najam, Rafiuddin; Thompson, Paul N.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Oregon State University
摘要：Schools are increasingly adopting four-day school weeks to address financial, attendance, and teacher retention issues, a trend that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified. However, little is known about the nonacademic behavioral responses of juveniles to such transitions. We examine the impacts of adopting a four-day school week on juvenile crime, focusing particularly on disparities across rurality and locale size, using a difference-in-differences estimation approach. We find significant upti...
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作者：Michelmore, Katherine
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Michelmore, Katherine
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Bendtsen, Karl-Emil
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：Can reducing administrative burdens increase the take-up of social benefits? This meta-analysis reviews 51 field experimental studies reporting 187 treatment effect sizes. Using the administrative burden framework to compare interventions, I reclassify each intervention by the stage it measures on (application vs. final receipt) and whether it reduces the learning demands by providing information or the compliance demands by providing assistance. The results indicate that it is significantly e...
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作者：Hu, Caiwen; Wang, Zhenyu
作者单位：Tongji University
摘要：This study examines how officials' heterogeneous preferences, particularly shaped by traumatic childhood experiences, impact government policy decisions. Leveraging China's Great Famine as a natural experiment, we apply a cohort difference-in-differences (DID) approach to analyze the effect of officials' exposure to famine on government objectives in their jurisdictions. Results show that famine-exposed officials, particularly those aged five or older during the crisis (a formative period for ...
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作者：Hansen, Benjamin; Houghton, Kendall; Miller, Keaton; Weber, Caroline
作者单位：University of Oregon; University of Kentucky
摘要：We study how prices respond when a 25% gross receipts tax remitted by cannabis manufacturers was eliminated in Washington state and the retail excise tax was simultaneously increased from 25% to 37%. Standard theory suggests that this change should have increased welfare for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers; instead, our analysis shows that the reform unexpectedly shifted benefits toward manufacturers at the expense of retailers and consumers, who faced higher tax-inclusive prices post-...
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作者：Gilbert, Joshua B.; Himmelsbach, Zachary; Soland, James; Joshi, Mridul; Domingue, Benjamin W.
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University Medical Affiliates; Massachusetts General Hospital; University of Virginia
摘要：Analyses of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) are common in applied causal inference research. However, when outcomes are latent variables assessed via psychometric instruments such as educational tests, standard methods ignore the potential HTE that may exist among the individual items of the outcome measure. Failing to account for item-level HTE (IL-HTE) can lead to both underestimated standard errors and identification challenges in the estimation of treatment-by-covariate interaction e...
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作者：Bier, David J.
