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Colonnelli, Emanuele; Gormsen, Niels; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Motivated by the public debate regarding corporate responsibility, we construct a memory-based model of decision-making to illustrate how corporate and political communication can impact policy preferences. We test the predictions of our model in a new large-scale survey of U.S. citizens on...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods

Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...

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What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

Cole, Shawn; Jeng, Leslie A.; Lerner, Joshua; Rigol, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In recent years, impact investors - private investors who seek to generate simultaneously financial and social returns - have attracted intense interest and controversy. We analyze a novel, comprehensive data set of impact and traditional investors to assess how the non-financial characteristics...

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An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact

Allcott, Hunt; Montanari, Giovanni; Ozaltun, Bora; Tan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies' social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the welfare loss that would be caused by a firm's exit. To illustrate, we quantify the social impacts of 74 firms in...

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The Politicization of Social Responsibility

Gormley, Todd A.; Jha, Manish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Institutional investors are less likely to support shareholder proposals involving environmental and social issues for firms headquartered in Republican-led states. The lower support concentrates in recent years, when politicians became more vocal about firms' social responsibility activities,...

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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector

Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...

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Fake News and Advertising on Social Media : A Study of the Anti-Vaccination Movement

Chiou, Lesley - 2018

Online sources sometimes publish information that is false or intentionally misleading. We study the role of social networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false...

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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Ho, Lisa Y.; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...

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Estimating the Value of Offsite Tracking Data to Advertisers : Evidence from Meta

Wernerfelt, Nils; Tuchman, Anna; Shapiro, Bradley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Third-party cookies and related 'offsite' tracking technologies are frequently used to share user data across applications in support of ad delivery. These data are viewed as highly valuable for online advertisers, but their usage faces increasing headwinds. In this paper, we quantify the...

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Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women

Levine, Phillip J. - 1999

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

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