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作者：Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz
作者单位：Dortmund University of Technology; University of Bonn; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：Large and persistent earnings losses following displacement have adverse consequences for the individual worker and the macroeconomy. Leading models cannot explain their size and disagree on their sources. Two mean-reverting forces make earnings losses transitory in these models: search as an upward force allows workers to climb back up the job ladder, and separations as a downward force make nondisplaced workers fall down the job ladder. We show that job stability at the top rather than searc...
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作者：Filiz-Ozbay, Emel; Uler, Neslihan
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：We study how competition among charities affects individuals' giving behavior. We characterize situations where charities benefitting substitute or complementary causes incentivize donations by offering subsidies in the form of rebates. Our theory predicts that an increase in the rebate rate offered by a given charity relative to a substitute charity will shift donations away from the substitute charity, but this stealing effect is not expected when complementary charities are considered. Our ...
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作者：Gneezy, Uri; Saccardo, Silvia; van Veldhuizen, Roel
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Amsterdam; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We experimentally investigate behavioral drivers of bribery, focusing on the role of self-interest, reciprocity, and moral costs associated with distorting judgment. In our laboratory experiment, two participants compete for a prize; a referee picks the winner. Participants can bribe the referee. When the referee can keep only the winner's bribe, bribes distort her judgment. When the referee keeps the bribes regardless of the winner, bribes no longer influence her decision. An experiment in an...
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作者：Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J.
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford; Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro data from the United States from 1880 to 2000, we find an increase in the employment share of interactive occupations within sectors over time that is larger in metro areas than nonmetro areas. We interpret these findings using a model in which reductions in transport and communic...
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作者：Hansman, Christopher; Hjort, Jonas; Leon, Gianmarco
作者单位：Imperial College London; Columbia University; Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：Industrial regulations are typically designed with a particular policy objective and set of firms in mind. When input-output linkages connect firms across sectors, such piecemeal regulations may worsen externalities elsewhere in the economy. Using daily administrative and survey data, we show that in Peru's industrial fishing sector, the world's largest, air pollution from downstream (fishmeal) manufacturing plants caused 55,000 additional respiratory hospital admissions per year as a conseque...
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作者：Hansman, Christopher; Hjort, Jonas; Leon, Gianmarco
作者单位：Imperial College London; Columbia University; Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
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作者：Bell, Alex; Chetty, Raj; Jaravel, Xavier; Petkova, Neviana; Van Reenen, John
作者单位：Harvard University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; United States Department of the Treasury; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursue careers in innovation. We first present empirical evidence on inventors' career trajectories and income distributions using deidentified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records in the United States. We find that the private returns to innovatio...
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作者：Hobijn, Bart; Nechio, Fernanda
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - San Francisco
摘要：We estimate the upper-level elasticity of substitution between goods and services of a nested aggregate CES preference specification. We show how this elasticity can be derived from the long-run response of the relative price of a good to a change in its VAT rate. We estimate this elasticity using new data on changes in VAT rates across 74 goods and services for 25 European Union countries from 1996 through 2015. Depending on the level of aggregation, we find a VAT pass-through rate between 0....
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作者：Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi
作者单位：RAND Corporation; Duke University; University of Gothenburg; National Bureau of Economic Research; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed namndeman) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases exist in the Swedish namndeman system, (ii) causal evidence on the impact of juror political party on verdicts, and (iii) an empirical examination of the role of peer effects in jury decision-making. The r...
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作者：Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz
作者单位：Dortmund University of Technology; University of Bonn
