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Effect or treatment heterogeneity? : policy evaluation with aggregated and disaggregated treatments

Heiler, Phillip; Knaus, Michael C. - 2022

Binary treatments are often ex-post aggregates of multiple treatments or can be disaggregated into multiple treatment versions. Thus, effects can be heterogeneous due to either effect or treatment heterogeneity. We propose a decomposition method that uncovers masked heterogeneity, avoids...

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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom data with information on their lender banks. We identify a shock … amount of information accumulated that can be shared with client firms. Conversely, the effect on the intensive margins of …

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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning

Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

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Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions

Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2022

Thorough structural change occurs periodically across world economies. In a parsimonious overlapping generation setup with political economy, we present a novel result: structural change not only exacerbates the rise in inequality but also strengthens the preference for redistribution. Labor...

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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers

Samuel Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, … - 2022

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...

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Risk-laden migration as a response to relative deprivation : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded - 2023

Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in migration, and the level of risk involved in migration has been understood...

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Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2023

This paper proposes a method to analyze interval-censored data, using multiple imputation based on a heteroskedastic interval regression approach. The proposed model aims to obtain a synthetic data set that can be used for standard analysis, including standard linear regression, quantile...

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A field study of donor behaviour in the Iranian kidney market

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022

Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from...

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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...

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