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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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Slow Traffic, Fast Food : The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice

B, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in highway traffic data in Los Angeles. We find that on days...

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Migrants' Remittances : Channelling Globalization

Anghel, Remus - 2015

In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization and growth in the developing world. By transferring home...

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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Conrads, Julian - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...

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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less … concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that …

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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …

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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...

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