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作者：Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova
作者单位：Central European University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：We present and estimate a model with strategic complementarities in firms' choices of on-time or delayed wage payment. Linked employer-employee panel data from Russia facilitate identification of the endogenous interactions through fixed effects for firms, workers, and local labor markets, and instrumental variables based on policy interventions. The estimated reaction function displays strongly positive neighborhood effects, and the estimated feedback loops-worker quits, effort, strikes, and ...
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作者：Harrigan, James; Barrows, Geoffrey
作者单位：University of Virginia; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Quota restrictions on United States imports of apparel and textiles under the multifiber arrangement (MFA) ended abruptly in January 2005. This change in policy was large, predetermined, and fully anticipated, making it an ideal natural experiment for testing the theory of trade policy. Prices of quota-constrained categories from China fell by 38% in 2005, with smaller declines from other exporters. Prices in unconstrained categories from all countries changed little. We also find substantial ...
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作者：Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Finan, Frederico
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper identifies neighborhood peer effects on children's school enrollment decisions using experimental evidence from the Mexican PROGRESA program. We use exogenous variation in the school participation of program-eligible children to identify peer effects on the schooling decisions of ineligible children residing in treatment communities. We find that peers have considerable influence on the enrollment decisions of program-ineligible children, and these effects are concentrated among chi...
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作者：Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The literature on schooling externalities in U. S. cities and states is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly found while positive externalities from the share of college graduates are more often identified. We propose a simple model to reconcile this mixed evidence. Our model predicts positive externalities from increased college education and negligible external effects from high school education. Using compulsory attendance/child labor laws, push-dri...
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作者：Antonovics, Kate; Knight, Brian G.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Brown University
摘要：This paper provides new evidence on racial profiling using information on the race of both motorists and officers. Extending the model of Knowles, Persico, and Todd (2001), we develop a new test for distinguishing between preference-based and statistical discrimination. Our test is based on the notion that if search decisions are driven purely by statistical discrimination, then they should be independent of officer race. Our results, by contrast, demonstrate that officers are more likely to s...
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作者：Joyce, Ted
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：I first replicate Donohue and Levitt's results for violent and property crime arrest rates. I apply their data and specification to an analysis of age-specific homicide rates and murder arrest rates. The coefficients on the abortion rate have the wrong sign for two of the four measures of crime and none is statistically significant at conventional levels. I then use the legalization of abortion in 1973 to exploit two sources of variation: between-state changes in abortion rates before and afte...
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作者：Desai, Mihir A.; Dharmapala, Dhammika
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Connecticut
摘要：Do corporate tax avoidance activities advance shareholder interests? This paper tests alternative theories of corporate tax avoidance using unexplained differences between income reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. OLS estimates indicate that the effect of tax avoidance on firm value is a function of firm governance, as predicted by an agency perspective on corporate tax avoidance. Instrumental variables estimates based on exogenous changes in tax regulations yield larger overa...
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作者：Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward; Thornton, Rebecca
作者单位：Harvard University; Brookings Institution; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We study a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program in which Kenyan girls who scored well on academic exams had school fees paid and received a grant. Girls showed substantial exam score gains, and teacher attendance improved in program schools. There were positive externalities for girls with low pretest scores, who were unlikely to win a scholarship. We see no evidence for weakened intrinsic motivation. There were heterogeneous program effects. In one of the two districts, there ...
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作者：Antonovics, Kate; Arcidiacono, Peter; Walsh, Randall
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Duke University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：An important issue with conducting economic analysis in the lab is whether the results generalize to real-world environments where the stakes and subject pool are considerably different. We examine data from the game show The Weakest Link to determine whether the gender of one's opponent affects performance. We then attempt to replicate the competitive structure of the game show in the lab with an undergraduate subject pool. The results in the lab only match when we both employ high stakes in ...
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作者：Ciccone, Antonio; Papaioannou, Elias
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Dartmouth College
摘要：We document that countries with higher initial education levels experienced faster value-added and employment growth in schooling-intensive industries in the 1980s and 1990s. This effect is robust to controls for other determinants of international specialization and becomes stronger when we focus on economies open to international trade. Our finding is consistent with schooling fostering the adoption of new technologies if such technologies are skilled-labor augmenting, as was the case in the...
