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We explore the impact of wage offers on job applications, testing implications of the directed search model and trying to distinguish it from random search. We use a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, with real jobs for which we randomly varied the wage offers across three...
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We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives...
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We randomized school quality information onto the listings of a nationwide housing website for low-income families. We use this variation and data on families' search and location choices to estimate a model of housing search and neighborhood choice that incorporates imperfect information and...
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We design and implement a large-scale field experiment - a resume correspondence study - to address a number of potential limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination, which may bias their results. One limitation that may bias these studies towards finding...
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …
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counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population …
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In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...
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We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate … instrumental variables models that address potential endogeneity of the number of refugees and their location, and find that an …
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Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … benefits, but we find evidence of temporarily higher property crime when refugees received lower benefits. We also find that …
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