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Estimating Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Peer Effects on Body Weight Using Roommate Assignments as a Natural Experiment
Heterogeneous Hierarchical Peer Body Weight Roommate Assignments Natural Experiment
2016/3/3
We investigate peer effects in weight gain by exploiting a natural experiment, roommate assignments of 751 male and 845 female first-year college students. Results indicate that females are subject to...
MILLIONAIRE MIGRATION AND STATE TAXATION OF TOP INCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT
state income tax top earners migration
2015/6/23
This paper examines the migration response to a millionaire tax in New Jersey,
which raised its income tax rate on top earners by 2.6 percentage points to 8.97
percent, one of the highest tax rate...
The Role of Firms in Fostering Within Country Migration:Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
Geographic Location Selection and Staffing Employment Residency Characteristics Technology Industry India
2015/4/29
High ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational and social barriers to migration, firms ...
Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs:A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants
Return Migration Knowledge Production Multinational Enterprise Internal Labor Markets
2015/4/29
I study whether return migrants and their direct reports facilitate knowledge production and transfer across borders for multinationals. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1315 inventors at...
Do Leaders Matter?Natural Experiment and Quantitative Case Study of Indian State Owned Laboratories
Patents Leadership State Ownership India
2015/4/29
Our study is one of the first natural experiments around the role of leaders in the context of firms. Also while most prior natural experiments around leadership in the policy world have exploited the...
Codifying Prior Art and Patenting:Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the EPO and USPTO
Patents Plased Agribusiness Ethnicity Characteristics Health Care and Treatment
2015/4/29
In the patenting literature, economists and legal scholars have focused on the question of improving the quality of prior art available to patent examiners and mitigating the filing and granting of pa...
What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms
Judgments Learning Business Processes Organizational Culture Failure Performance Improvement Opportunities Complexity
2015/4/24
On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms fro...
How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
International Finance Energy Sources Energy Industry Asia
2015/4/21
We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous varia...
The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
sex ratios mating competition entrepreneurship Taiwan
2015/1/22
We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test the economic consequences of excess men. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young male...
Precipitation as a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Agricultural Value of Irrigation Water
Precipitation Natural Experiment Estimate the Agricultural Value Irrigation Water
2014/6/3
Precipitation as a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Agricultural Value of Irrigation Water。
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
immigration lottery natural experiment subjective well-being Tonga Pacific Islands
2012/10/22
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on sub...
The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment
Effect Tracking Students Ability into Different Schools Natural Experiment
2016/3/9
The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and nonelite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement...
Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
fractionalization public goods collective action discrimination
2012/10/22
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and...
Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain
mother’s labor supply preschool children childcare quasi-natural experiment differences-in-differences-in-differences
2012/10/25
Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the e...
Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model
labor supply welfare participation unobserved heterogeneity natural experiment regression discontinuity microsimulation
2012/10/30
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budg...