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作者：Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter
作者单位：Northwestern University; The World Bank; University of East Anglia
摘要：Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries, but prevalent diseases such as malaria can adversely impact the productivity and labor supply of workers. We estimate the impact of malaria infection on worker earnings, labor supply, daily productivity, and task selection by using a phased-in design where we randomize the study week in which piece-rate workers at a large sugarcane plantation in Nigeria are offered malaria testing and t...
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作者：Hidir, Sinem; Vellodi, Nikhil
作者单位：University of Warwick; Princeton University; Paris School of Economics
摘要：We study a bilateral trade setting in which a buyer has private valuations over a multi-product seller's inventory. We introduce the notion of an incentive-compatible market segmentation (IC-MS)-a market segmentation compatible with the buyer's incentives to voluntarily reveal their preferences. Our main result is a characterization of the buyer-optimal IC-MS. It is partially revealing, comprised primarily of pooling segments wide enough to keep prices low but narrow enough to ensure trade ove...
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作者：Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A.
作者单位：ICREA; Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics; University of Oxford
摘要：We propose a novel measure of goodness of fit for stochastic choice models, that is, the maximal fraction of data that can be reconciled with the model. The procedure is to separate the data into two parts: one generated by the best specification of the model and another representing residual behavior. We claim that the three elements involved in a separation are instrumental in understanding the data. We show how to apply our approach to any stochastic choice model and then study the case of ...
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作者：De Philippis, Marta; Rossi, Federico
作者单位：European Central Bank; Bank of Italy; University of Warwick
摘要：This paper studies the contribution of parental influence in accounting for cross-country gaps in human capital achievements. We argue that the cross-country variation in unobserved parental characteristics is at least as important as the one in commonly used observable proxies of parental socioeconomic background. We infer this through an indirect empirical approach, based on the comparison of the school performance of second-generation immigrants. We document that, within the same host count...
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作者：Fisman, Raymond; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Vannutelli, Silvia
作者单位：Boston University; Princeton University
摘要：We study distributional preferences in larger societies. We conduct experiments via Mechanical Turk, in which subjects choose between two income distributions, each with seven (or more) individuals, with hypothetical incomes that aim to approximate the actual distribution of income in the United States. In contrast to prior work, our design allows us to flexibly capture the particular distributional concerns of subjects. Consistent with standard maximin (Rawlsian) preferences, subjects select ...
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作者：Jia, Ruixue; Persson, Torsten
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Stockholm University
摘要：This paper studies how material incentives and social norms shape ethnic identity choices in China. Provincial policies give material benefits to minorities, which consequently affect the ethnicity choices for children in ethnically mixed marriages. We formalize the ethnic identity choice in a simple framework, which highlights the interaction of (i) material benefits stemming from ethnic policies, (ii) identity costs associated with breaking the norm of following the father's ethnicity, and (...
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作者：Agranov, Marina; Elliott, Matt
作者单位：California Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge
摘要：In many matching markets, bargaining determines who matches with whom and on what terms. We experimentally investigate allocative efficiency and how subjects' payoffs depend on their matching opportunities in such markets. We consider three simple markets. There are no information asymmetries, subjects are patient, and a perfectly equitable outcome is both feasible and efficient. Efficient perfect equilibria of the corresponding bargaining game exist, but are increasingly complicated to sustai...
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作者：Cavalcanti, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Getulio Vargas Foundation; Insper
摘要：There is a large body of evidence showing that for many countries the structure of wages and pensions and the labor law legislation are different for public and private employees. Such differences affect the occupational choice of agents and might generate some type of misallocation. We develop a life-cycle model with endogenous occupational choice and heterogeneous agents to study the implications of an overpaid public sector. The model is estimated to be consistent with micro and macro evide...
