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Health Insurance and Traffic Fatalities: The Effects of Substance Use Disorder Parity Laws 健康保险和交通事故:物质使用障碍均等法的影响
Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.3386/W23388
Ioana Popovici, J. Maclean, Michael T. French
Each year, approximately 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic crashes. In this study, we investigate whether state-specific parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the added benefit of reducing traffic fatalities. Parity laws compel insurers to generously cover SUD treatment in private markets, thereby reducing the financial costs of and increasing access to treatment for beneficiaries. We employ 23 years of administrative data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) coupled with a differences-in-differences design to investigate the potential spillover effects of parity laws to traffic safety. Our findings indicate that passage of a parity law reduces traffic fatality rates by 5.8 to 8.6%. We also find that passage of parity laws reduces fatal alcohol poisonings and psychoactive drug overdoses. These findings suggest that government regulations requiring insurers to cover SUD treatment can significantly improve traffic safety, possibly by reducing the number of impaired drivers on roadways.
在美国,每年大约有1万人死于酒精导致的交通事故,而20%的致命交通事故与精神药物有关。在本研究中,我们调查了针对物质使用障碍(SUD)治疗的特定州平价法律是否具有减少交通事故死亡的额外好处。平价法迫使保险公司在私人市场上慷慨地支付SUD治疗费用,从而降低了财务成本,增加了受益人获得治疗的机会。我们利用来自死亡分析报告系统(FARS)的23年行政数据,结合差异中的差异设计来调查平价法律对交通安全的潜在溢出效应。我们的研究结果表明,通过平价法可将交通死亡率降低5.8至8.6%。我们还发现,平等法律的通过减少了致命的酒精中毒和精神活性药物过量。这些发现表明,政府法规要求保险公司承担SUD治疗可以显著提高交通安全,可能通过减少道路上受损司机的数量来实现。
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引用次数: 3
Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century 19世纪后期,农场规模的不平等导致了银行和信贷的抑制吗
Pub Date : 2017-04-27 DOI: 10.3386/W23348
Matthew S. Jaremski, P. Fishback
This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the number of banks per thousand people in the South has a strong positive relationship with the size of farm operations. This suggests that large Southern farm operators welcomed new banks after the Civil War. When the analysis is extended into the 1900s, the relationship becomes more negative, as bankers may have tried to block entrants.
本文建立了一个新的数据库,涵盖了1870年至1900年人口普查年份的美国所有银行,以测试银行体系从零开始时不平等与金融发展之间的相互作用。固定效应面板回归显示,南方每千人拥有的银行数量与农场经营规模呈正相关。这表明,南北战争后,南方的大型农场经营者欢迎新的银行。当分析延伸到20世纪初时,这种关系变得更加消极,因为银行家可能试图阻止进入者。
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引用次数: 1
China's GDP Growth May be Understated 中国的GDP增长可能被低估
Pub Date : 2017-04-14 DOI: 10.3386/W23323
Hunter L. Clark, M. Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Concerns about the quality of China’s official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2016a and b), we exploit nighttime lights to compute the optimal weights for various Chinese economic indicators in a best unbiased predictor of Chinese growth rates. Our computations of Chinese growth based on optimal weightings of various combinations of economic indicators provide evidence against the hypothesis that the Chinese economy contracted precipitously in late 2015, and are consistent with the rate of Chinese growth being higher than is reported in the official statistics.
对中国官方GDP统计数据质量的担忧,一直是理解中国经济动态的一个长期问题。我们使用卫星记录的夜间灯光数据作为独立基准,比较中国经济状况的各种已公布指标。使用Pinkovskiy和Sala-i-Martin (2016a和b)的方法,我们利用夜间灯光来计算各种中国经济指标在中国增长率的最佳无偏预测中的最佳权重。我们基于各种经济指标组合的最优权重对中国经济增长的计算,为反驳中国经济在2015年底急剧收缩的假设提供了证据,并与中国经济增长率高于官方统计数据的说法相一致。
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引用次数: 51
Shocks vs. Responsiveness: What Drives Time-Varying Dispersion? 冲击vs响应性:是什么驱动时变离散度?
Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.3386/w23143
David Berger, Joseph Vavra
The dispersion of many economic variables is countercyclical. What drives this fact? Greater dispersion could arise from greater volatility of shocks or from agents responding more to shocks of constant size. Without data separately measuring exogenous shocks and endogenous responses, a theoretical debate between these explanations has emerged. In this paper, we provide novel identification using the open-economy environment: using confidential BLS microdata, we document a robust positive relationship between exchange rate pass-through and the dispersion of item-level price changes. We show this relationship arises naturally in models with time-varying responsiveness but is at odds with models featuring volatility shocks.
许多经济变量的分散是逆周期的。是什么推动了这一事实?更大的分散可能是由于冲击的波动性更大,或由于药剂对恒定规模的冲击反应更大。由于没有单独测量外生冲击和内生反应的数据,这些解释之间的理论争论已经出现。在本文中,我们使用开放经济环境提供了新的识别:使用机密的BLS微数据,我们记录了汇率传递与项目级价格变化分散之间的强大正相关关系。我们表明,这种关系在具有时变响应性的模型中自然出现,但与具有波动性冲击的模型不一致。
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引用次数: 26
The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variance 收入隔离的加剧:真实趋势还是随机抽样方差
Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.3386/w23656
J. Logan, A. Foster, Jun Ke, Fan Li
Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a decline in the 1990s to an increase in the 2000-2010 decade. This finding reinforces concerns about the growing overall income inequality in the U.S. since the 1970s. Yet the evidence may be systematically biased to show an upward trend because the effective sample for the American Community Survey (ACS) is much smaller than it was for Census 2000, to which it is being compared. There is a possibility that the apparent changes in disparities across census tracts result partly from a higher level of sampling variation and bias due to the smaller sample. This study uses 100% microdata from the 1940 census to simulate the impact of different sampling rates on estimates of several measures of segregation and to propose and test the effectiveness of approaches to correcting the bias. It then applies those approaches to publicly available data for 2000 and 2007-2011. The reduction in sample sizes associated with the ACS results in exaggeration of evidence for increasing income segregation for all measures tested here, especially for subgroups (African Americans are studied here as an example). The methods of correction applied here will yield more conclusive and unbiased results when applied to the original sample data that is held internally by the Census Bureau.
最近的研究报告称,大都市地区收入隔离的早期趋势出现了逆转,从20世纪90年代的下降到2000-2010年的增加。这一发现加剧了人们对上世纪70年代以来美国整体收入差距日益扩大的担忧。然而,证据可能系统性地偏向于显示上升趋势,因为美国社区调查(ACS)的有效样本比2000年人口普查的有效样本要小得多。有一种可能性是,人口普查区差异的明显变化,部分是由于样本较小而导致的更高水平的抽样变异和偏差。本研究使用1940年人口普查的100%微观数据来模拟不同抽样率对几种隔离措施估计的影响,并提出和测试纠正偏差的方法的有效性。然后将这些方法应用于2000年和2007-2011年的公开数据。与ACS相关的样本量的减少导致在这里测试的所有措施中,特别是在亚群体中,夸大了收入隔离加剧的证据(这里以非洲裔美国人为例进行研究)。当应用于人口普查局内部持有的原始样本数据时,这里采用的校正方法将产生更确凿和公正的结果。
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引用次数: 1
It's Not the Thought that Counts: A Field Experiment on Gift Exchange and Giving at a Public University 思想不重要:一所公立大学关于礼物交换和赠送的实地实验
Pub Date : 2016-11-23 DOI: 10.3386/W22867
Catherine C. Eckel, David H. Herberich, J. Meer
One of the most important outstanding questions in fundraising is whether donor premiums, or gifts to prospective donors, are effective in increasing donations. Donors may be motivated by reciprocity, making premium recipients more likely to donate and give larger donations. Or donors may dislike premiums, preferring instead to maximize the value of their donations to the charity; in this case donor premiums would be ineffective. We conduct a field experiment in conjunction with the fundraising campaign of a major university to examine these questions. Treatments include a control, an unconditional premium with two gift quality levels, and a set of conditional premium treatments. The conditional treatments include opt-out and opt-in conditions to test whether donors prefer to forego premiums. Compared with the control, donors are twice as likely to give when they receive an unconditional, high-quality gift. The low-quality unconditional and all conditional premiums have little impact on the likelihood or level of giving. Donors do not respond negatively to premiums: rates of giving do not suffer when premiums are offered. In addition, few opt out given the opportunity to do so, indicating that they like gifts, and suggesting that reciprocity rather than altruism determines the impact of premiums on giving.
筹款中最重要的突出问题之一是,捐赠者溢价或给潜在捐赠者的礼物是否能有效地增加捐款。捐赠者可能出于互惠的动机,使优质接受者更有可能捐赠,并提供更多的捐赠。或者捐赠者可能不喜欢溢价,而是更喜欢将他们对慈善机构的捐赠价值最大化;在这种情况下,捐赠方的保费将是无效的。我们结合一所重点大学的筹款活动,进行了一个实地实验来检验这些问题。治疗包括一个控制,一个无条件的奖励,有两个礼物质量水平,和一组有条件的奖励治疗。有条件治疗包括选择退出和选择加入条件,以测试捐赠者是否愿意放弃保费。与对照组相比,当捐赠者收到无条件的、高质量的礼物时,他们捐赠的可能性是对照组的两倍。低质量的无条件和所有有条件的保费对捐赠的可能性或水平影响不大。捐助者不会对溢价作出负面反应:提供溢价时,捐赠率不会受到影响。此外,如果有机会,很少有人会选择退出,这表明他们喜欢礼物,这表明是互惠而不是利他主义决定了溢价对捐赠的影响。
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引用次数: 12
The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data 长期失业的后果:来自相关调查和行政数据的证据
Pub Date : 2016-09-22 DOI: 10.3386/W22665
Katharine G. Abraham, J. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer
It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are “bad apples” who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that their bad outcomes are a consequence of the extended unemployment they have experienced (state dependence). We use Current Population Survey (CPS) data on unemployed individuals linked to wage records for the same people to distinguish between these competing explanations. For each person in our sample, we have wage record data that cover the period from 20 quarters before to 11 quarters after the quarter in which the person is observed in the CPS. This gives us rich information about prior and subsequent work histories not available to previous researchers that we use to control for individual heterogeneity that might be affecting subsequent labor market outcomes. Even with these controls in place, we find that unemployment duration has a strongly negative effect on the likelihood of subsequent employment. This result is robust to efforts to account for differences in labor market circumstances that might affect job-finding success rates. The findings are inconsistent with the heterogeneity (“bad apple”) explanation for why the long-term unemployed fare worse than the short-term unemployed and lend support to the state dependence explanation for the negative association between unemployment duration and subsequent employment rates. We also find that longer unemployment durations are associated with lower subsequent earnings, though this is mainly attributable to the long-term unemployed having a lower likelihood of subsequent employment rather than to their having lower earnings once a job is found.
众所周知,长期失业者在劳动力市场上的表现比短期失业者更糟糕,但不太清楚为什么会这样。一种可能的解释是,长期失业者是“坏苹果”,他们从一开始就前景不佳(异质性)。另一种说法是,它们的糟糕结果是它们经历的长期失业(依赖国家)的结果。我们使用当前人口调查(CPS)的数据,将失业人员与同一个人的工资记录联系起来,以区分这些相互竞争的解释。对于我们样本中的每个人,我们都有工资记录数据,涵盖了该个人在CPS中被观察的季度之前的20个季度到之后的11个季度。这为我们提供了之前和之后的工作历史的丰富信息,这些信息是以前的研究人员无法获得的,我们使用这些信息来控制可能影响随后劳动力市场结果的个体异质性。即使有这些控制措施,我们发现失业持续时间对后续就业的可能性有强烈的负面影响。这一结果对于解释可能影响求职成功率的劳动力市场环境差异的努力是强有力的。研究结果与异质性(“坏苹果”)解释长期失业者比短期失业者更糟糕的原因不一致,并支持国家依赖解释失业持续时间与随后的就业率之间的负相关关系。我们还发现,较长的失业持续时间与较低的后续收入有关,尽管这主要是由于长期失业的人后续就业的可能性较低,而不是由于他们找到工作后的收入较低。
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引用次数: 4
Bringing Real Market Participants' Real Preferences into the Lab: An Experiment that Changed the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton 将真实市场参与者的真实偏好带入实验室:一个改变沃顿商学院课程分配机制的实验
Pub Date : 2016-07-01 DOI: 10.3386/w22448
Eric Budish, Judd B. Kessler
This paper reports on an experimental test of a new market design that is attractive in theory but makes the common and potentially unrealistic assumption that “agents report their type†; that is, that market participants can perfectly report their preferences to the mechanism. Concerns about preference reporting led to a novel experimental design that brought real market participants’ real preferences into the lab, as opposed to endowing experimental subjects with artificial preferences as is typical in market design. The experiment found that market participants were able to report their preferences “accurately enough†to realize efficiency and fairness benefits of the mechanism even while preference-reporting mistakes meaningfully harmed mechanism performance. [Working Paper 22448]
本文报告了一种新的市场设计的实验测试,这种设计在理论上是有吸引力的,但却做出了普遍的、可能不切实际的假设:€œagents报告它们的类型;也就是说,市场参与者可以完美地向机制报告他们的偏好。对偏好报告的关注导致了一种新颖的实验设计,将真实的市场参与者的真实偏好引入实验室,而不是像市场设计中典型的那样赋予实验对象人为的偏好。实验发现,市场参与者能够充分地报告他们的偏好€œaccurately足够的,以实现机制的效率和公平利益,即使偏好报告错误会有意地损害机制的绩效。[工作文件22448]
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引用次数: 19
External and Internal Validity of a Geographic Quasi-Experiment Embedded in Cluster-Randomized Experiment 嵌入聚类随机实验的地理拟实验的外部和内部有效性
Pub Date : 2016-07-01 DOI: 10.1108/S0731-905320170000038009
Sebastian Galiani, Patrick J. McEwan, B. Quistorff
This paper analyzes a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment in Honduras. In the experiment, average treatment effects on school enrollment and child labor were large—especially in the poorest blocks—and could be generalized to a policy-relevant population given the original sample selection criteria. In contrast, the geographic quasi-experiment yielded point estimates that, for two of three dependent variables, were attenuated. A judicious policy analyst without access to the experimental results might have provided misleading advice based on the magnitude of point estimates. We assessed two main explanations for the difference in point estimates, related to external and internal validity.
本文分析了洪都拉斯集群随机实验中嵌入的地理准实验。在实验中,对入学率和童工的平均治疗效果很大,尤其是在最贫穷的街区,并且可以推广到与政策相关的人群,因为原始的样本选择标准。相比之下,地理准实验得出的点估计,对于三个因变量中的两个,是衰减的。一个没有接触实验结果的明智的政策分析师可能会根据点估计的大小提供误导性的建议。我们评估了两种主要解释点估计的差异,与外部和内部效度有关。
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引用次数: 5
Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover 谁是老板?强领导对员工离职的影响
Pub Date : 2016-07-01 DOI: 10.3386/W22383
S. Carter, W. Dudley, David S. Lyle, John Z. Smith
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss’ leadership quality on labor market outcomes such as employee job retention. Using plausibly exogenous assignment of junior officers to bosses in the U.S. Army, we find positive retention effects for those assigned to immediate and senior bosses who are good leaders. These effects are strongest for officers with high SAT scores. Junior officers who share the same home geographic region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the highest rates.
尽管工作场所的监督很重要,但人们对老板的领导素质对劳动力市场结果(如员工留任)的影响知之甚少。通过对美国陆军下级军官的合理外生分配,我们发现,对于那些被分配给优秀领导的直接上司和高级上司的军官来说,他们的留任效应是积极的。这些影响在SAT分数高的警官身上表现得最为明显。与上司有着相同的家庭地理区域、较高的SAT成绩、相同的本科院校的下级军官保留率最高,他们也有很强的领导能力。
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引用次数: 10
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