Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education [0.03%]
公立教育开支的均衡效应：私立教育质量的拥挤问题
Tahir Andrabi,Natalie Bau,Jishnu Das et al.
Tahir Andrabi et al.
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at...
MORE POWER TO THE PILL: THE IMPACT OF CONTRACEPTIVE FREEDOM ON WOMEN'S LIFE CYCLE LABOR SUPPLY [0.03%]
赋权于药：避孕自由对妇女劳动供给的影响
Martha J Bailey
Martha J Bailey
The release of Enovid in 1960, the first birth control pill, afforded U. S. women unprecedented freedom to plan childbearing and their careers. This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in state consent laws to evaluate the causal impac...
E Jason Baron,Joseph J Doyle Jr,Natalia Emanuel et al.
E Jason Baron et al.
We develop empirical tools for studying discrimination in multi-phase systems, and apply them to the setting of foster care placement by child protective services. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of two sets of decision-makers-initia...
Amitabh Chandra,Evan Flack,Ziad Obermeyer
Amitabh Chandra
What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare's prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-...
Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone [0.03%]
社会信号与儿童免疫接种：塞拉利昂的实地实验
Anne Karing
Anne Karing
This article explores the use of social signaling as a policy tool to sustainably affect childhood immunization. In a 26-month field experiment with public clinics in Sierra Leone, I introduce a verifiable signal-in the form of color-coded ...
Anna Aizer,Nancy Early,Shari Eli et al.
Anna Aizer et al.
We study the lifetime effects of the first and largest American youth employment and training program in the United States-the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933-1942. We match newly digitized enrollee records to census, World War II e...
How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay [0.03%]
1963年《平等支付法案》和1964年《民权法》如何塑造了性别薪酬差距
Martha J Bailey,Thomas Helgerman,Bryan A Stuart
Martha J Bailey
In the 1960s, two landmark statutes-the Equal Pay and Civil Rights Acts-targeted the long-standing practice of employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full-year...
THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF COVID-19: EVIDENCE FROM A NEW PUBLIC DATABASE BUILT USING PRIVATE SECTOR DATA [0.03%]
利用私营部门数据构建的新型公共数据库对COVID-19经济影响的研究
Raj Chetty,John N Friedman,Michael Stepner;OPPORTUNITY INSIGHTS TEAM
Raj Chetty
We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the United States at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, jo...
Marcella Alsan,Maya Durvasula,Harsh Gupta et al.
Marcella Alsan et al.
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physic...
MONITORING FOR WASTE: EVIDENCE FROM MEDICARE AUDITS [0.03%]
来自 Medicare 审计的证据：监管与浪费监视：来自 Medicare 审计的证据：监管与浪费
Maggie Shi
Maggie Shi
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a lar...