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Collective Reputation in Trade : Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry

Bai, Jie; Gazze, Ludovica; Wang, Yukun - 2022

Collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one firm’s products could affect the demand of other firms from the same origin country. We study this issue in the context of a large-scale scandal that affected the Chinese dairy...

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The Effects of Government Licensing on E-Commerce : Evidence from Alibaba

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Li, Chunxiao - 2022

Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL …

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Is the Fda Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? : A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

Montazerhodjat, Vahid - 2015

Implicit in the drug-approval process is a trade-off between Type I and Type II error. We explore the application of Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to minimize the expected cost of drug approval, where relative costs are calibrated using U.S. Burden of Disease Study 2010 data. The results for...

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...

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The Social Safety Net in the Wake of Covid-19

Bitler, Marianne - 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has led to spiking unemployment rates with disproportionate impacts on low-income families. School and child-care center closures have also meant lost free- and reduced-price school meals. Food prices have increased sharply leading to reduced purchasing power for families'...

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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-Mercury and Child Cognitive Development

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Santos, Rafael J. - 2022

We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate the causal effects of early-life consumption of...

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A Tale of Repetition : Lessons from Florida Restaurant Inspections

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2015

This paper examines the role of repetition in government regulation using Florida restaurant inspection data from 2003 to 2010. In the raw data, inspectors new to inspected restaurants tend to report 27% more violations than repeat inspectors. After ruling out regulatory capture and endogenous...

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Relocating or Redefined : A New Perspective on Urbanization in China

Gan, Li; He, Qing; Si, Ruichao; Yi, Daichun - 2022

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China … important factor for the oversupply of residential housing units in China …

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The Consumption Response to Trade Shocks : Evidence from the Us-China Trade War

Waugh, Michael - 2022

This paper provides evidence on the consumption effects of trade shocks by exploiting changes in US and Chinese trade policy between 2017 and 2018. The analysis uses a unique data set with the universe of new auto sales at the US county level, at a monthly frequency, and a simple...

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Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice : Theory and Evidence from China

Jia, Ruixue; Persson, Torsten - 2022

The same government policy that incentivizes individuals to make a certain choice can have different effects across groups due to the existence of social norms. In this paper, we study how Chinese ethnic policies that give material benefits to minorities affect ethnicity choices for children in...

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