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作者：Messacar, Derek
作者单位：Statistics Canada; Memorial University Newfoundland
摘要：This study assesses whether workplace pensions help individuals overcome knowledge barriers to saving for retirement. Using administrative data from Canada and exploiting unique features of the pension system, I find compelling evidence that each $1 contributed to workplace pensions partially crowds out other retirement saving by approximately $0.50among interior saversin a regression kink design, centering on unionized workers for methodological reasons. Further analysis indicates that active...
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作者：Chalfin, Aaron; McCrary, Justin
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We document the extent of measurement errors in the basic data set on police used in the literature on the effect of police on crime. Analyzing medium to large U.S. cities over 1960 to 2010, we obtain measurement error-corrected estimates of the police elasticity. The magnitudes of our estimates are similar to those obtained in the quasi-experimental literature, but our approach yields much greater parameter certainty for the most costly crimes, the key parameters for welfare analysis. Our ana...
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作者：Hessami, Zohal
作者单位：University of Konstanz
摘要：Political agency models suggest that elected public officials choose different policies than appointed officials do. This paper is the first (a) to apply a clean empirical design to study whether the selection rule has a causal effect on public officials' policy choices and (b) to investigate transmission channels. I exploit a unique setting in Germany, where a reform has created quasi-experimental variation in the selection rule for mayors. As the outcome variable, I use data on grant receipt...
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作者：Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; McMillen, Daniel P.
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Despite unprecedented vertical growth in large cities, the economics of skyscrapers remain understudied. We combine data on tall buildings with a panel of land prices covering 140 years to analyze the determinants of urban heights. We provide estimates of the land price elasticity of height, the height elasticity of construction cost, and the elasticity of substitution between land and capital for tall buildings. The land price elasticity of height increased substantially over time, and it is ...
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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...
