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Coordination with Cognitive Noise

By Cary Frydman and Salvatore Nunnari

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We experimentally study how cognitive noise affects behavior in coordination games. Our key testable prediction is that equilibrium behavior depends on context, which we define as the distribution from which games are drawn. This prediction arises from ...

How Border and Distance Effects Shape the Multinational Wage Premium

By Hartmut Egger, Elke Jahn, and Udo Kreickemeier

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

The multinational wage premium is well documented across countries. Using a new German dataset, we identify two previously overlooked determinants. First, wages paid by foreign multinationals in German plants increase with the distance between headquarte...

Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

By Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Elizabeth Spelke, and Mark Walsh

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We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. Secondary school scholarships delay fertility, reduc...

Rationing by Race

By Manasvini Singh and Atheendar Venkataramani

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We document how deepening resource scarcity results in rationing on the basis of race in a highstakes setting: health care. Using detailed, time-stamped data on 107,000 inpatient admissions to a large health system, we find that in-hospital mortality in...

Racial Promotion Gaps

By Deepak Hegde, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Manav Raj

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We study racial disparities in promotions in a setting in which promotions are formulaic: the US patent office. Using detailed administrative data that allow us to observe who is eligible for promotion when, we document that Black patent examiners exper...

Screening and Segmenting: A Consumer Surplus Perspective

By Dirk Bergemann, Tibor Heumann, and Michael C. Wang

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We analyze consumer surplus when a monopolist can adjust both prices and product qualities across segments, engaging in second- and third-degree price discrimination simultaneously. We characterize the consumer-optimal segmentation and show that it has a...

Small Group Breakfast Meeting for Underrepresented Scholars

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蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households

By Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny C. Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

Little is known about the evolution and persistence of the effects of one-time cash transfers, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. We use bimonthly phone surveys to estimate dynamic impacts for cash ...

The Political Geography of Cities

By Richard Bluhm, Christian Lessmann, and Paul Schaudt

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

We study the link between regional capitals and urban development. We exploit new global data on hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018 to estimate the capital city premium. Gaining capital status increases ci...

Order Effects and Teacher Labor Supply: A Nationwide RCT in Ecuador

By 狈颈肠辞濒谩蝉 Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, and Anne Sofie Olsen

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

We evaluate a nationwide zero-cost intervention to reduce teacher sorting, where lower-income students are more likely to attend understaffed schools with less qualified teachers. Our approach was grounded in an insight from behavioral economics known as ...

Decentralizing Development: The Economic Impacts of Government Splits

By Ricardo Dahis and Christiane Szerman

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common across many countries. We examine the economic impacts of government unit creation through splitting. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp increases in the number of ...

Dominated Pension Investments: The Role of Search Frictions and Unawareness

By Karin Kinnerud and Louise Lorentzon

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the Swedish pension system to examine to what extent information and search frictions explain dominated high-fee index fund choices. Three findings standout: (i) Letters that increase awareness of a dominated c...

Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data

By Xiaogeng Xu, Satu 惭别迟蝉盲濒补尘辫颈, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

Received wisdom holds that income rank matters for life satisfaction, but causal evidence on the nature and impact of income comparisons is limited. We randomize individuals from a representative sample of mid-career Finns to receive personal rank informa...

The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

By Daniel Reck and Arthur Seibold

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

We analyze welfare under reference-dependent preferences. We decompose the first-order welfare effects of reference point and price changes into direct and behavioral effects. The sign of these effects depends on the form of reference-dependent payoffs; w...

Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict-Reducing Effects of Intervillage Competition for Government Transfers

By Teevrat Garg, Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo, and Gregor Singer

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

We examine the effect of intergroup competition on within-group violent conflict in Indonesia. Using a triple-differences design, we find that higher competition for national government transfers between villages reduces within-village conflict. These eff...

Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare

By Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

Firms often exploit weaknesses in government contracts to boost revenues, yet little is known about how they allocate these funds. We study how hospitals allocated $3 billion obtained from gaming a Medicare loophole. The average gaming hospital increased ...

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

By Michael A. Clemens and Ethan G. Lewis

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2026

US firms hiring foreign workers in low-skill nonfarm jobs face a binding quota on the "H-2B" visa, allocated in part through a randomized lottery. We evaluate the quota's marginal impact using the lottery, a novel firm survey, and a pre-analysis plan. Fir...

Reserve Price Competition with Demand Uncertainty

By James Peck and Jeevant Rampal

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We consider duopoly competition under aggregate demand uncertainty, where firms compete by choosing reserve prices and holding uniform-price auctions. Consumers observe their valuation, but not the demand state, commit to a firm and participate in its ...

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