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作者：Kunze, Astrid; Miller, Amalia R.
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); University of Virginia; IZA Institute Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study gender spillovers in career advancement using eleven years of employer-employee matched data on white-collar workers at over 4,000 private sector workplaces in Norway. Our data allow us to define seven hierarchical ranks that are consistent across plants and over time and track promotions even for individuals who change employers. We find positive spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within ranks. The finding of narrower ...
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作者：Mahoney, Neale; Weyl, E. Glen
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Policies to correct market power and selection can be misguided when these forces coexist. We build a model of symmetric imperfect competition in selection markets that parameterizes the degree of market power and selection. We use graphical price-theoretic reasoning to characterize the interaction between these forces. Using a calibrated model of health insurance, we show that the risk adjustment commonly used to offset adverse selection can reduce coverage and social surplus. Conversely, in ...
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作者：Blundell, Richard; Horowitz, Joel; Parey, Matthias
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Northwestern University; University of Essex
摘要：We present a method for consistent nonparametric estimation of a demand function with nonseparable unobserved taste heterogeneity subject to the shape restriction implied by the Slutsky inequality. We use the method to estimate gasoline demand in the United States. The results reveal differences in behavior between heavy and moderate gasoline users. They also reveal variation in the responsiveness of demand to plausible changes in prices across the income distribution. We extend our estimation...
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作者：Png, I. P. L.
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Here, I study the effect of state enactment of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) on R&D among U.S. businesses between 1979 and 1998. Using a new index of the legal protection of trade secrets, I find that the UTSA was associated with higher R&D among larger companies and those in high-tech industries. For the average company in the respective industry, the UTSA was associated with 3.2% more R&D in pharmaceuticals and 3.1% more R&D in computers and office equipment, as contrasted with no sig...
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作者：Abeberese, Ama Baafra
作者单位：Wellesley College
摘要：Using data on Indian firms, I provide evidence on how electricity prices affect a firm's industry choice and productivity growth. I construct an instrument for electricity price as the interaction between coal price and the share of thermal generation in a state's total electricity generation capacity. I find that in response to an exogenous increase in electricity price, firms switch to less electricity-intensive production processes within narrowly defined industries, reduce their machine in...
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作者：Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically focus on estimating mean impacts that only vary across subgroups. Using a novel approach to simulating treatment group earnings under the constant mean impacts within subgroup model, we find this model does a poor job of capturing treatment effect heterogeneity for Connecticut...
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作者：Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Brandt, Loren; Henderson, J. Vernon; Turner, Matthew A.; Zhang, Qinghua
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Brown University; Peking University
摘要：We investigate how urban railroad and highway configurations have influenced urban form in Chinese cities since 1990. Each radial highway displaces 4% of central city population to surrounding regions, and ring roads displace about an additional 20%, with stronger effects in the richer coastal and central regions. Each radial railroad reduces central city industrial GDP by about 20%, with ring roads displacing an additional 50%. We provide evidence that radial highways decentralize service sec...
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作者：Mourifie, Ismael; Wan, Yuanyuan
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：In this paper, we propose an easy-to-implement procedure to test the key conditions for the identification and estimation of the local average treatment effect (LATE; Imbens & Angrist, 1994). We reformulate the testable implications of LATE assumptions as two conditional inequalities, which can be tested in the intersection bounds framework of Chernozhukov, Lee, and Rosen (2013) and easily implemented using the Stata package of Chernozhukov et al. (2015). We apply the proposed tests to the dra...
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作者：Foellmi, Reto; Martinez, Isabel Z.
作者单位：University of St Gallen
摘要：In the past twenty years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top 1% but closer to the United States for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control method, we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons changed their tax system at different points in time. Using social security data, which cover all top labor incomes, we document the growing importance o...
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作者：Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R.
作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics; Georgetown University; Asian Institute of Management
摘要：Temporary overseas work can both raise a family's income and split the household geographically, with theoretically ambiguous net effects on spending, finance, and labor supply decisions. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that quasi-randomly assigned temporary, partial-household migration for high-wage jobs inKorea. This allows quasiexperimental estimates of reduced-form effects of migration. We find that migration causes large changes in households' spending and savingnot onl...
