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The US-China trade war and the relocation of global value chains to Mexico
Utar, Hâle; Zurita, Alfonso Cebreros; Torres Ruiz, … - 2023
Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We … address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of … in GVC activities in Mexico with linkages to Asian and US-based GVCs. Our analysis also reveals increased net exports and …
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School indiscipline and crime
Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Sandi, Matteo - 2022
This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data matching education and criminal records from Queensland. Exploiting a dropout age reform in 2006, it defines a series of regression-discontinuity specifications. While police...
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School and crime
Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023
Criminal activity is seasonal, peaking in the summer and declining through the winter. We provide the first evidence that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year and declining in the summer. We use a regression...
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Small children, big problems : childbirth and crime
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Rocha, Roberto Hsu; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2024
We investigate the effect of having a child on parents’ criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil. Fathers’ criminal activity sharply increases by up to 10% during the pregnancy period, and by up to 30% two years after birth, while mothers experience only a transitory...
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Justice under uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
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Unemployment in a just economy
Komlos, John - 2016
This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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Policy competition, imitation and coordination under uncertainty
Hefeker, Carsten - 2022
The paper analyzes under what circumstances policymakers experiment with policies with uncertain outcomes, when they prefer to imitate policies initiated in other countries, and when they prefer to coordinate policies internationally. Policymakers have private costs of active policies and...
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Monetary and fiscal policy interaction in the EMU : a dynamic game approach
Aarle, Bas van; Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; Plasmans, … - 2001
The interaction of monetary and fiscal policies is a crucial issue in a highly integrated economic area as the European Union. We argue that EMU, which introduced a common monetary policy and restrictions on fiscal policy at the national level, increases the need for macroeconomic policy...
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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