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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2018

Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors (middle managers) when ministerial leadership (the principal) introduced a...

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Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda

Duflo, Esther; Keniston, Daniel; Suri, Tavneet; Zipfel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In a two-step experiment of an agronomy training program among...

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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...

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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice

Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

in one of the world's most valuable agricultural areas: California. Using rich administrative data and exogenous … discrete choice model, we estimate that a counterfactual $10 per-acre-foot groundwater tax--a level consistent with California …

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success : Evidence from California Administrative Data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 …, but the effects of the pandemic on enrollment in the California Community College system are mostly unknown and might … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …

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Heterogeneity in the Impact of Privatizing Social Health Insurance : Evidence from California's Medicaid Program

Duggan, Mark G.; Garthwaite, Craig; Wang, Adelina Yanyue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

this paper we study California's mandatory enrollment of the senior and persons with disabilities (SPD) population in MMC …

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Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County

Esposito, Christopher; Leamer, Edward E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

wage law and in 2016 the State of California passed a different minimum wage law. This created two minimum wage schedules … proximity to restaurants subject to the lower California State minimum wage. The effect of neighborhood income levels and …

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The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization

Adams, Alyce; Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Most hospitals and managed care organizations have financial assistance programs that aim to reduce financial burdens and improve health care access for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the effects of financial assistance on health care utilization....

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Headwinds and Tailwinds : Implications of Inefficient Retail Energy Pricing for Energy Substitution

Borenstein, Severin; Bushnell, James B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

the fuels with a large survey of California households' energy use, we calculate the distribution of annual fuel costs for …

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Soaking Up the Sun : Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium

Butters, R. Andrew; Dorsey, Jackson; Gowrisankaran, Gautam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

declines in aggregate capacity. California's 1,300 MW battery mandate implies subsidies of 49% and creates deadweight losses of …

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