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Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Performance

Apperson, Jarod T.; Jackson, Francesina; Viceisza, … - 2025

Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies and interventions aimed at increasing college performance, persistence, and graduation. In this article, we assess whether cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) has the potential...

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Beliefs About Political News in the Run-up to an Election

Angelucci, Charles; Gutmann, Michel; Prat, Andrea - 2024

This paper develops a model of news discernment to explore the influence of elections on the formation of partisan-driven parallel information universes. Using survey data from news quizzes administered during and outside the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the model shows that partisan...

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The Impact of Price Transparency in Outpatient Provider Markets

Barnes, Kayleigh; Glied, Sherry; Handel, Benjamin R.; … - 2024

Medical provider price transparency is often touted as a way to lower health care spending. But the impact of price transparency is theoretically ambiguous: it could lower health care spending via increased consumer price shopping or improved insurer bargaining but could also raise health care...

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Finance Without Exotic Risk

Bordalo, Pedro; Gennaioli, Nicola; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2024

We address the joint hypothesis problem in cross-sectional asset pricing by using measured analyst expectations of earnings growth. We construct a firm-level measure of Expectations Based Returns (EBRs) that uses analyst forecast errors and revisions and shuts down any cross-sectional...

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The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes : Evidence and Theory

Bai, Xiwen; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Li, Yiliang; … - 2024

We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...

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Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes : Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - 2024

A weakening of labor protection policies is often invoked as one cause of observed monopsony power and the decline in labor's share of income, but little evidence exists on the causal impact of labor policies on wage markdowns. Using confidential Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019,...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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Billionaire Superstar : Public Image and Demand for Taxation

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Yusof, Jeffrey - 2024

In the United States, there are 741 billionaires with a combined net worth of $5.2 trillion. These billionaires live highly public lives, with some achieving superstar status. Despite growing inequality, billionaires face effective tax rates lower than the average American. Is this due to a lack...

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A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? : Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh

Miller, Grant; Biswas, Debashish; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - 2024

Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...

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Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality

Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan W.; Koumpias, … - 2023

This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcare-amenable, and HIV-related mortality...

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