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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Ferraro, Paul J.; Messer, Kent D.; Shukla, Pallavi; Weigel, Collin
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; University of Delaware; Deakin University
摘要：Experimental research in behavioral economics focuses on consumer behaviors. Similar experimental research on profit-maximizing producers is rare. In three field experiments involving commercial agricultural producers in the United States, we detect evidence of anchoring in competitive auctions for conservation contracts related to nutrient and pest management that were worth, on average, nearly $9,000. In these auctions, the value of the starting cost-share bid was randomized to be either 0% ...
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作者：Bargain, Olivier B.; Jonassen, Anders B.
作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：We estimate the impact of social assistance on youth employment in Denmark, 2000 to 2006. For childless unmarried individuals, maximum welfare payments increased by 55% at age 25. Using administrative panel data, we find a significant disincentive effect among the low-skilled only, for whom employment fell by 2% to 3% and benefit take-up increased by 10% to 14%. Two-thirds of the effect is attributable to transitions from work to welfare and one-third to reduced labor market entry. Heterogeneo...
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作者：Couttenier, Mathieu; Hatte, Sophie; Thoenig, Mathias; Vlachos, Stephanos
作者单位：Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS de LYON); University of Lausanne; University of Vienna
摘要：We study how news coverage of immigrant criminality impacts voting in one of the most controversial referendums in recent years-the 2009 Swiss minaret ban. We combine a comprehensive crime detection data set with detailed information on newspaper coverage. We first document a large upward distortion in media reporting of immigrant crime during the prereferendum period. Exploiting quasi-random variations in crime incidence, we find a positive first-order effect of news coverage on support for t...
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作者：Sant'Anna, Marcelo
摘要：Biofuels offer one approach for reducing carbon emissions. However, the necessary agricultural expansion may endanger tropical forests. I use a dynamic model of land use to disentangle the roles of acreage and yields in the supply of sugarcane ethanol in Brazil. The model is estimated using remote sensing (satellite) information of sugarcane activities. Estimates imply that, at the margin, 92% of new ethanol comes from increases in area and only 8% from increases in yield. Direct deforestation...
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作者：van den Bijgaart, Inge; Cerruti, Davide
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：We evaluate the effect of vehicle recalls on vehicle transactions in the second-hand market. Using a rich data set of Dutch vehicle registrations, we exploit the quasiexperimental variation in recalls across nearly identical cars. We find strong heterogeneities across market segments: transactions increased for cars with lower listed price or with defects, and decreased for those with higher price or no defects. Based on our theoretical model, this suggests that recalls increase sorting in low...
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作者：Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.
作者单位：Duke University; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：Programs implemented by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other actors, yet relatively little is known about how implementer identity drives final outcomes. By combining a stratified field experiment in India with a triple- difference estimation strategy, we show that a local development NGO's prior engagement with target communities increases the effectiveness of a technology promotion program implemented in these areas by at least 30%. T...
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作者：Brzezinski, Adam; Chen, Yao; Palma, Nuno; Ward, Felix
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Manchester; Universidade de Lisboa; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：We estimate the effect of money supply changes on the real economy by exploiting a recurring natural experiment: maritime disasters in the Spanish Empire (1531-1810) that resulted in the loss of substantial amounts of silver money. We find that negative money supply shocks caused Spanish real output to decline. A transmission channel analysis highlights slow price adjustments and credit frictions as mechanisms through which money supply changes affected the real economy. Especially large outpu...
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作者：Firoozi, Daniel
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University; Claremont McKenna College
摘要：Information about inequality can change political attitudes in lab and survey experiments. I use data from the Appalachian Regional Commission and a regression discontinuity design to test whether salient information about local poverty can impact voter behavior in a field setting. I find that when the poorest decile of counties is labeled economically distressed, the Democratic share of the Presidential and House popular vote rises in subsequent elections. I present suggestive evidence linkin...
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作者：Boxell, Levi; Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
摘要：We measure trends in affective polarization in twelve OECD countries over the past four decades. According to our baseline estimates, the United States experienced the largest increase in polarization over this period. Five countries experienced a smaller increase in polarization. Six countries experienced a decrease in polarization. We relate trends in polarization to trends in potential explanatory factors.
