-
作者：Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D.
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; State University System of Florida; Florida Gulf Coast University; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要：We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate that higher maximum benefit levels mitigate the effects of layoffs. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with women's lay...
-
作者：Coury, Michael
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：How does exposure to risk shape individual preferences foran expanded state? I examine this question in the context of climatechange-related risk. Using variation in California wildfire activity, I showneighborhoods experiencing large fires increase support by 0.8 percentagepoints for ballot initiatives which expand the size of government and by2.4 percentage points for ballot initiatives endorsed by pro-environmentinterest groups. The effect is stronger in Republican areas and is notdriven by...
-
作者：Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C.
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural household...
-
作者：Curci, Federico; Masera, Federico
作者单位：CUNEF Universidad; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：In this paper we study the effect of violent crime on residential and firms location decisions and their implications for segregation in cities. We do so by proposing a new instrument to exogenously predict violent crime in city centers. We base our instrument on chemical and medical evidence that links local characteristics of the soil to lead poisoning and aggression. We show that the increase in violent crime between 1960 and 1990 due to lead poisoning moved almost 8 million people to the s...
-
作者：Mueller, Ulrich K.
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：The paper combines extreme value theory for the smallest and largest k observations for some given k > 1 with a normal approximation for the average of the remaining observations to construct a more robust alternative to the usual t-test. The new test is found to control size much more successfully in small samples compared to existing methods. This holds for the canonical inference for the mean problem based on an i.i.d. sample, but also when comparing two population means and when conducting...
-
作者：Bohren, J. Aislinn; Haggag, Kareem; Imas, Alex; Pope, Devin G.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Chicago
摘要：We study inaccurate beliefs as a source of discrimination. Economists typically characterize discrimination as stemming from a taste-based (preference) or accurate statistical (belief-based) source. Although individuals may have inaccurate beliefs about how relevant characteristics (e.g., productivity, signals) are correlated with group identity, fewer than 7% of empirical discrimination papers in economics consider the possibility of such inaccurate statistical discrimination. Using theory an...
-
作者：Bundorf, M. Kate; DeMatteis, Jill; Miller, Grant; Polyakova, Maria; Streeter, Jialu L.; Wivagg, Jonathan
作者单位：Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Westat; Stanford University
-
作者：Brownback, Andy; Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A.
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Chicago; University of Oregon
摘要：We conduct a field experiment with low-income shoppers to study how behavioral interventions can improve the effectiveness of healthy food subsidies. Our unique design enables us to deliver subsidies both before and during grocery shopping. We examine the effects of two nonrestrictive changes to the choice environment: giving shoppers agency over the subsidy they receive and introducing a waiting period before a subsidized shopping trip to prompt deliberation about upcoming purchases. These in...
-
作者：Callaway, Brantly; Li, Tong
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Vanderbilt University
摘要：During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, national andlocal governments introduced a number of policies to combat the spread ofCOVID-19. In this paper, we propose a new approach to bound the effectsof such early-pandemic policies on COVID-19 cases and other outcomeswhile dealing with complications arising from (i) limited availability ofCOVID-19 tests, (ii) differential availability of COVID-19 tests acrosslocations, and (iii) eligibility requirements for individuals to be tested. Weuse ...
-
作者：Nielsen, Carsten S.; Sebald, Alexander C.; Sorensen, Peter N.
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：We construct and run an experiment to test the most basic choiceeffect predicted by salience theory. Subjects allocate wealth between arisky and a safe investment. While we vary an apparent payoff ratio to in-fluence salience, treatments have economically equivalent consequences.Most other theories of behavior then predict zero effect. Our experimen-tal findings are strongly consistent with the behavioral implication of acontinuous version of salience theory. We provide a novel structural es-t...
