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Varying Impacts of Letters of Recommendation on College Admissions

Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants …

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Behavior Mediates the Health Effects of Extreme Wildfire Smoke Events

Heft-Neal, Sam; Gould, Carlos F.; Childs, Marissa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

impacts. We combine geolocated data covering the near universe of 127 million emergency department (ED) visits in California …

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Man vs. Machine : Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement

Browne, Oliver; Gazze, Ludovica; Greenstone, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

New technologies allow perfect detection of environmental violations at near-zero marginal cost, but take-up is low. We conducted a field experiment to evaluate enforcement of water conservation rules with smart meters in Fresno, CA. Households were randomly assigned combinations of enforcement...

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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth

Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of …

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Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions : An Application to Merger and Product Variety

Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate …

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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California

Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We apply a Regression Discontinuity based approach to screen for collusion developed in Kawai et al. (2022) to public procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than those who lose by a very small margin in the...

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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …

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Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work : Evidence from California Tax Data

Bernhardt, Annette; Campos, Christopher; Prohofsky, Allen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of … independent contracting and self-employment work in California. We identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax … return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information return. We estimate that 14.4% of California workers aged 18-64 in tax …

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Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface : Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California

Kunreuther, Howard; Demidov, Artem; Pauly, Mark V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

will not take the spillover benefits into account. We use the distribution of house values in a California community …

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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks

Coile, Courtney; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Su, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor …

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