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Cheap Talk Messages for Market Design : Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market with Directed Search
Horton, John J.; Johari, Ramesh; Kircher, Philipp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In a model with cheap talk, employers can send messages about their willingness to pay for higher ability workers, which job-seekers can use to direct their search and tailor their wage bid. Introducing such messages leads--under certain conditions--to an informative separating equilibrium which...
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Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century : Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2009
This paper considers the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight. With data on inmates incarcerated in the Tennessee and Illinois state penitentiaries between 1831 and 1892, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the...
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The effects of pre-trial detention on conviction, future crime, and employment : evidence from randomly assigned judges
Dobbie, Will; Goldin, Jacob; Yang, Crystal - 2016
Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to estimate the causal effects of pre-trial...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
Blanchet, Didier - 2016
labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms that took place since 1993. The French …
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2016
Longevity is increasing and many people are spending a greater proportion of their lives reliant on pensions to support consumption. In response to this, several countries have mandated delays to age of first entitlement to pension benefits in order to reduce incentives to retire early. However,...
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Capabilities and Skills
Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...
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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in … whether and how much the degree of heterogeneity in communities influences the amount of participation in different types of … characteristics, participation in social activities is significantly lower in more unequal and in more racially or ethnically …
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Group Corruption via Sequential Bargaining in a Hierarchical Organization
Kung, Fan-chin; Wang, Ping; Wen, Quan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a framework of group corruption via back-door negotiations between an outside initiator and an authority of decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and determine under such a structure how bargaining...
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