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Why is Trade Not Free? : A Revealed Preference Approach

Adão, Rodrigo; Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A prominent explanation for why trade is not free is politicians' desire to protect some of their constituents at the expense of others. In this paper we develop a methodology that can be used to reveal the welfare weights that a nation's import tariffs implicitly place on different groups of...

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Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions

Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Hull, Peter; Kolesár, Michal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

treatments are conditionally randomly assigned and the controls are sufficiently flexible to avoid omitted variables bias … treatments. Thus, recent concerns about heterogeneity-induced bias in regressions leveraging potential outcome restrictions (e … contamination bias and propose a new class of efficient estimators of weighted average effects that avoid bias. In a re-analysis of …

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare

Akesson, Jesper; Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although fake online customer reviews have become prevalent on platforms such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, little is known about how these reviews influence consumer behavior. This paper provides the first experimental estimates of the effects of fake reviews on individual demand and...

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Generation Next : Experimentation with AI

Charness, Gary; Jabarian, Brian; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the potential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance scientific practice within experimentation by identifying key areas, directions, and implications. First, we discuss how these models can improve experimental design, including improving the elicitation wording, coding...

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Non-Binary Gender Economics

Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Economics research has largely overlooked non-binary individuals. We aim to jump-start the literature by providing data on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender-based discrimination and express different career and...

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Is it the Message or the Messenger? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs

Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do political leaders affect constituents' beliefs? Is it rhetoric, leader identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? Using a large-scale experiment we decompose the relative importance of partisan messages vs leader sources, in the context of beliefs about immigration....

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Enhancing Human Capital in Children : A Case Study on Scaling

Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico. Our analysis encompasses two separate field experiments, and takes advantage of a unique opportunity to learn from the government's implementation of the program on a large...

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Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence : Experimental Evidence from Radiology

Agarwal, Nikhil; Moehring, Alex; Rajpurkar, Pranav; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have achieved performance levels comparable to human experts on various predictive tasks, human experts can still access valuable contextual information not yet incorporated into AI predictions. Humans assisted by AI predictions could outperform both...

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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use four incentivized representative surveys to study the endowment effect for lotteries in 4,000 U.S. adults. We replicate the standard finding of an endowment effect--the divergence between Willingness to Accept (WTA) and Willingness to Pay (WTP), but document three new findings. First, we...

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