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The expansion of access to publicly provided pre-kindergarten bundles together redistribution to the poor with an early human capital investment. Financing publicly provided pre-K investment is mainly a state and local issue. Which voters favor local pre-K expansion? This paper uses several new...
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are … demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the urban labor market, the average gender pension gap decreased between … 1988 and 2018. In the paper, we describe the evolution of the fragmented pension system in urban China using a quantitative …
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Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants …, the economies of scale and density inherent to urban environments offer unique opportunities for mitigating or adapting to …
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We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...
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Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real-effort experiment in which individuals had to...
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that one and the same norm can be output-increasing, neutral, or output-decreasing depending on the incentive scheme. We …
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the principal is neutral. Our results have implications for the design and implementation of incentive structures within …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
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We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...
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