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Jiang, Xiheng; Xing, Jianwei; Xu, Jintao; Zou, Eric Yongchen - 2022

Microgiving, a new form of digital fundraising, operates by soliciting minuscule, recurring donations from large numbers of potential donors. We evaluate a charity subscription program operated by Alibaba, China's largest retail platform, which allows sellers to pledge a tiny portion of a...

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Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Power

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2022

Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of gender quota legislation across developing countries, we...

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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Rob - 2022

From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate 97,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity, drug-induced causes, and alcohol-induced causes were...

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - 2022

We examine patterns of work in the U.S. from 1973-2018 with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled during this period, with over 8 million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The...

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz-Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz-Menéndez, Luis - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...

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Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions

Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Hull, Peter; Kolesár, Michal - 2022

We study the interpretation of regressions with multiple treatments and flexible controls. Such regressions are often used to analyze stratified randomized control trials with multiple intervention arms, to estimate value-added (for, e.g., teachers) with observational data, and to leverage the...

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Cutting Out the Middleman : The Structure of Chains of Intermediation

Grant, Matthew; Startz, Meredith L. - 2022

Distribution of goods often involves multiple intermediaries engaged in sequential buying and reselling. Why do these chains of intermediation exist, and what are their implications for consumers? We show that multi-intermediary chains arise in response to internal economies of scale in trade...

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Opioid Use and Employment Outcomes : Evidence from the U.S. Military

Alpert, Abby E.; Schwab, Steve; Ukert, Benjamin D. - 2022

There is significant interest in understanding the labor market consequences of the opioid epidemic, but little is known about how opioid use impacts on-the-job productivity. We analyze the impact of opioid initiation in the emergency department (ED) on workforce outcomes in the Military using...

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Near-Rational Equilibria in Heterogeneous-Agent Models : A Verification Method

Kogan, Leonid; Mitra, Indrajit - 2022

We propose a general simulation-based procedure for estimating quality of approximate policies in heterogeneous-agent equilibrium models, which allows to verify that such approximate solutions describe a near-rational equilibrium. Our procedure endows agents with superior knowledge of the future...

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