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This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...
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This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
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, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its’ trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine … particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). I find high and rising levels of global air quality inequality. The global PM2 …
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This paper develops a mechanism design approach to study externalities and re-distribution. The mechanism screens individuals’ social weights to strike a balance among broad distributional objectives, incentives to work, and incentives to reduce externalities. The welfare-optimal allocation...
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Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...
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's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around … significantly reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians in a pattern detection hiring task, we find …
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Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually …
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