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DOI: 10.3886/e114224v1
title: Replication data for: Interest Rate Risk and Other Determinants of Post-WWII US Government Debt/GDP Dynamics

description: This paper uses a sequence of government budget constraints to motivate estimates of returns on the US Federal government debt. Our estimates differ conceptually and quantitatively from the interest payments reported by the US government. We use our estimates to account for contributions to the evolution of the debt-GDP ratio made by inflation, growth, and nominal returns paid on debts of different maturities. (JEL E23, E31, E43, G12, H63)
DOI: 10.3886/e114225
title: Replication data for: Estimating the Market-Perceived Monetary Policy Rule

description: We introduce a novel method for estimating a monetary policy rule using macroeconomic news. We estimate directly the policy rule agents use to form their expectations by linking news' effects on forecasts of both economic conditions and monetary policy. Evidence between 1994 and 2007 indicates that the market-perceived Federal Reserve policy rule changed: the output response vanished, and the inflation response path became more gradual but larger in long-run magnitude. These response coefficient estimates are robust to measurement and theoretical issues with both potential output and the inflation target. (JEL C51, E31, E43, E52, E58)
DOI: 10.3886/e114225v1
title: Replication data for: Estimating the Market-Perceived Monetary Policy Rule

description: We introduce a novel method for estimating a monetary policy rule using macroeconomic news. We estimate directly the policy rule agents use to form their expectations by linking news' effects on forecasts of both economic conditions and monetary policy. Evidence between 1994 and 2007 indicates that the market-perceived Federal Reserve policy rule changed: the output response vanished, and the inflation response path became more gradual but larger in long-run magnitude. These response coefficient estimates are robust to measurement and theoretical issues with both potential output and the inflation target. (JEL C51, E31, E43, E52, E58)
DOI: 10.3886/e114495
title: Replication data for: Trends and Disparities in Leave Use under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data

description: We use novel administrative data to study trends and disparities in usage of California's first-in-the-nation paid family leave (PFL) program. We show that take-up for both bonding with a new child and caring for an ill family member increased over 2005–2014. Most women combine PFL with maternity leave from the State Disability Insurance system, resulting in leaves longer than 6 weeks. Most men take less than the full 6 weeks of PFL. Individuals in the lowest earnings quartile and in small firms are the least likely to take leave. There are important differences in take-up across industries, especially for men.
DOI: 10.3886/e114495v1
title: Replication data for: Trends and Disparities in Leave Use under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data

description: We use novel administrative data to study trends and disparities in usage of California's first-in-the-nation paid family leave (PFL) program. We show that take-up for both bonding with a new child and caring for an ill family member increased over 2005–2014. Most women combine PFL with maternity leave from the State Disability Insurance system, resulting in leaves longer than 6 weeks. Most men take less than the full 6 weeks of PFL. Individuals in the lowest earnings quartile and in small firms are the least likely to take leave. There are important differences in take-up across industries, especially for men.
DOI: 10.3886/e114496
title: Replication data for: Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point

description: There is considerable interest in the success of women in overwhelmingly male environments. One hypothesized determinant of success is the increased presence of other women. However, the theoretical direction of this effect is uncertain. Previous studies of heavily male contexts have had mixed results. We take advantage of random peer group assignment at West Point military academy to identify gender peer effects in the first years in which women were admitted. We find that women do significantly better when placed in companies with more women peers. The addition of one woman peer reduces the gender progression gap by half.
DOI: 10.3886/e114496v1
title: Replication data for: Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point

description: There is considerable interest in the success of women in overwhelmingly male environments. One hypothesized determinant of success is the increased presence of other women. However, the theoretical direction of this effect is uncertain. Previous studies of heavily male contexts have had mixed results. We take advantage of random peer group assignment at West Point military academy to identify gender peer effects in the first years in which women were admitted. We find that women do significantly better when placed in companies with more women peers. The addition of one woman peer reduces the gender progression gap by half.
DOI: 10.3886/e114497v1
title: Replication data for: The Price of Labor: Evaluating the Impact of Eliminating User Fees on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

description: Since 2001, several sub-Saharan African countries have eliminated user fees for childbirth. Although intended to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, service quality also fell as facilities became overburdened. In this paper I combine DHS surveys on births from countries eliminating user fees. I identify the effect of user fee elimination using (i) a maternal fixed effect and (ii) an event study within a small geographic area. I find that user fees increase the likelihood of delivery at public sector facilities by 2–7 percentage points. I also find that user fee elimination reduces maternal mortality but may increase neonatal mortality.
DOI: 10.3886/e114689
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare

description: The misuse of prescription opioids has become a serious epidemic in the United States. In response, states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid prescribing history. While few providers participated in early systems, states have recently begun to require providers to access the PDMP under certain circumstances. We find that "must access" PDMPs significantly reduce measures of misuse in Medicare Part D. In contrast, we find that PDMPs without such provisions have no effect. We find stronger effects when providers are required to access the PDMP under broad circumstances, not only when they are suspicious.
DOI: 10.3886/e114689v1
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare

description: The misuse of prescription opioids has become a serious epidemic in the United States. In response, states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid prescribing history. While few providers participated in early systems, states have recently begun to require providers to access the PDMP under certain circumstances. We find that "must access" PDMPs significantly reduce measures of misuse in Medicare Part D. In contrast, we find that PDMPs without such provisions have no effect. We find stronger effects when providers are required to access the PDMP under broad circumstances, not only when they are suspicious.
DOI: 10.3886/e114690
title: Replication data for: Identifying the Harm of Manipulable School-Choice Mechanisms

description: An important but under-explored issue in student assignment procedures is heterogeneity in the level of strategic sophistication among students. Our work provides the first direct measure of which students rank schools following their true preference order (sincere students) and which rank schools by manipulating their true preferences (sophisticated students). We present evidence that our proxy for sophistication captures systematic differences among students. Our results demonstrate that sophisticated students are 9.6 percentage points more likely to be assigned to one of their preferred schools. Further, we show that this large difference in assignment probability occurs because sophisticated students systematically avoid over-demanded schools.
DOI: 10.3886/e114690v1
title: Replication data for: Identifying the Harm of Manipulable School-Choice Mechanisms

description: An important but under-explored issue in student assignment procedures is heterogeneity in the level of strategic sophistication among students. Our work provides the first direct measure of which students rank schools following their true preference order (sincere students) and which rank schools by manipulating their true preferences (sophisticated students). We present evidence that our proxy for sophistication captures systematic differences among students. Our results demonstrate that sophisticated students are 9.6 percentage points more likely to be assigned to one of their preferred schools. Further, we show that this large difference in assignment probability occurs because sophisticated students systematically avoid over-demanded schools.
DOI: 10.3886/e114691
title: Replication data for: Under the Radar: The Effects of Monitoring Firms on Tax Compliance

description: This paper analyzes the effects of size-dependent tax enforcement on firms' tax compliance. We exploit quasi-experimental variation generated by a Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) in Spain, which monitors firms with more than €6 million in reported revenue. Firms strategically bunch below the eligibility threshold in order to avoid stricter tax enforcement. The response is stronger in sectors where transactions leave more paper trail, suggesting that monitoring effort and the traceability of information reported by firms are complements. We estimate that there would be substantial welfare gains from extending stricter tax monitoring to smaller businesses.
DOI: 10.3886/e114691v1
title: Replication data for: Under the Radar: The Effects of Monitoring Firms on Tax Compliance

description: This paper analyzes the effects of size-dependent tax enforcement on firms' tax compliance. We exploit quasi-experimental variation generated by a Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) in Spain, which monitors firms with more than €6 million in reported revenue. Firms strategically bunch below the eligibility threshold in order to avoid stricter tax enforcement. The response is stronger in sectors where transactions leave more paper trail, suggesting that monitoring effort and the traceability of information reported by firms are complements. We estimate that there would be substantial welfare gains from extending stricter tax monitoring to smaller businesses.
DOI: 10.3886/e114692v1
title: Replication data for: Discounting Disentangled

description: The economic values of investing in long-term public projects are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR). We surveyed over 200 experts to disentangle disagreement on the risk-free SDR into its component parts, including pure time preference, the wealth effect and return to capital. We show that the majority of experts do not follow the simple Ramsey Rule, a widely-used theoretical discounting framework, when recommending SDRs. Despite disagreement on discounting procedures and point values, we obtain a surprising degree of consensus among experts, with more than three-quarters finding the median risk-free SDR of 2 percent acceptable.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3483796
title: Lookup tables for H2SO4-H2O binary and H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous and ion-mediated nucleation

description: 2019/10/10 This directory contains fortran code and lookup tables for calculating<br> nucleation rate for the following four nucleation mechanims:<br> 1. H2SO4-H2O binary homogenous nucleation (BHN),<br> 2. H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous nucleation (THN),<br> 3. H2SO4-H2O-Ions binary ion-mediated nucleation (BIMN), and<br> 4. H2SO4-H2O-NH3-Ions ternary ion-mediated nucleation (TIMN) References: 1. Yu, F., Nadykto, A. B., Herb, J., Luo, G., Nazarenko, K. M., and<br> Uvarova, L. A.: H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary ion-mediated nucleation (BHN):<br> Kinetic-based model and comparison with CLOUD measurements, Atmos.<br> Chem. Phys.,18, 17451-17474,<br> https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17451-2018, 2018.<br> 2. Yu, F., Nadykto, A. B., Herb, and J., Luo, H2SO4-H2O binary and<br> H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous and ion-mediated nucleation: Lookup tables,<br> in review, GMD, 2019. <br> Files included in the package: YBHN/: BHN code and lookup table<br> YTHN/: THN code and lookup table<br> YBIMN/: BIMN code and lookup table<br> YTIMN/: TIMN code and lookup table nucl_XXX_mod.f (XXX = BHN, THN, BIMN, TIMN): Stand alone module for XXX rate calculation. mainXXX.f: Test program to demonstrate how the lookup table is used. inputXXX.dat: Example input data for testing the code and lookup table.<br> outputXXX.dat: Example output after running the test code Use "f95 *.f" to compile and get executable program a.out To run the test program: &gt;a.out For your reference, output of running the program on my workstation has been saved to outputXXX.dat. I hope that the comments provided in the subroutines make<br> the code self-explanatory. Contact me if you have questions. Enjoy and have fun! Fangqun Yu<br> SUNY-Albany<br> (fyu@albany.edu)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3483797
title: Lookup tables for H2SO4-H2O binary and H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous and ion-mediated nucleation

description: 2019/10/10 This directory contains fortran code and lookup tables for calculating<br> nucleation rate for the following four nucleation mechanims:<br> 1. H2SO4-H2O binary homogenous nucleation (BHN),<br> 2. H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous nucleation (THN),<br> 3. H2SO4-H2O-Ions binary ion-mediated nucleation (BIMN), and<br> 4. H2SO4-H2O-NH3-Ions ternary ion-mediated nucleation (TIMN) References: 1. Yu, F., Nadykto, A. B., Herb, J., Luo, G., Nazarenko, K. M., and<br> Uvarova, L. A.: H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary ion-mediated nucleation (BHN):<br> Kinetic-based model and comparison with CLOUD measurements, Atmos.<br> Chem. Phys.,18, 17451-17474,<br> https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17451-2018, 2018.<br> 2. Yu, F., Nadykto, A. B., Herb, and J., Luo, H2SO4-H2O binary and<br> H2SO4-H2O-NH3 ternary homogeneous and ion-mediated nucleation: Lookup tables,<br> in review, GMD, 2019. <br> Files included in the package: YBHN/: BHN code and lookup table<br> YTHN/: THN code and lookup table<br> YBIMN/: BIMN code and lookup table<br> YTIMN/: TIMN code and lookup table nucl_XXX_mod.f (XXX = BHN, THN, BIMN, TIMN): Stand alone module for XXX rate calculation. mainXXX.f: Test program to demonstrate how the lookup table is used. inputXXX.dat: Example input data for testing the code and lookup table.<br> outputXXX.dat: Example output after running the test code Use "f95 *.f" to compile and get executable program a.out To run the test program: &gt;a.out For your reference, output of running the program on my workstation has been saved to outputXXX.dat. I hope that the comments provided in the subroutines make<br> the code self-explanatory. Contact me if you have questions. Enjoy and have fun! Fangqun Yu<br> SUNY-Albany<br> (fyu@albany.edu)
DOI: 10.3886/e113734
title: Replication data for: Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap? The Effect of Plan-Making Prompts on Job Search and Employment

description: The paper tests the effects of plan making on job search and employment. In a field experiment with unemployed youths, participants who complete a detailed job search plan increase the number of job applications submitted (by 15 percent) but not the time spent searching, consistent with intention-behavior gaps observed at baseline. Job seekers in the plan-making group diversify their search strategy and use more formal search channels. This greater search efficiency and effectiveness translate into more job offers (30 percent) and employment (26 percent). Weekly reminders and peer support sub-treatments do not improve the impacts of plan making.
DOI: 10.3886/e113735
title: Replication data for: Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda

description: I study the role of financial incentives as signals of job characteristics when these are unknown to potential applicants. To this end, I create experimental variation in expected earnings and use that to estimate the effect of financial incentives on candidates' perception of a brand-new health-promoter position in Uganda and on the resulting size and composition of the applicant pool. I find that more lucrative positions are perceived as entailing a lower positive externality for the community and discourage agents with strong pro-social preferences from applying. While higher financial incentives attract more applicants and increase the probability of filling a vacancy, the signal they convey reduces the ability to recruit the most socially motivated agents, who are found to stay longer on the job and to perform better.
DOI: 10.3886/e113735v1
title: Replication data for: Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda

description: I study the role of financial incentives as signals of job characteristics when these are unknown to potential applicants. To this end, I create experimental variation in expected earnings and use that to estimate the effect of financial incentives on candidates' perception of a brand-new health-promoter position in Uganda and on the resulting size and composition of the applicant pool. I find that more lucrative positions are perceived as entailing a lower positive externality for the community and discourage agents with strong pro-social preferences from applying. While higher financial incentives attract more applicants and increase the probability of filling a vacancy, the signal they convey reduces the ability to recruit the most socially motivated agents, who are found to stay longer on the job and to perform better.
DOI: 10.3886/e113736
title: Replication data for: The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

description: Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s matriculation at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was associated with higher wages and an increased probability of graduation, relative to attending a traditionally white institution. By the 1990s, there is a wage penalty resulting in a 20 percent decline in the relative wages of HBCU graduates between the two decades. There is modest support for the possibility that the relative decline in wages associated with HBCU matriculation is partially due to improvements in TWIs' effectiveness at educating blacks. (JEL I23, J15, J24, J31)
DOI: 10.3886/e113736v1
title: Replication data for: The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

description: Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s matriculation at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was associated with higher wages and an increased probability of graduation, relative to attending a traditionally white institution. By the 1990s, there is a wage penalty resulting in a 20 percent decline in the relative wages of HBCU graduates between the two decades. There is modest support for the possibility that the relative decline in wages associated with HBCU matriculation is partially due to improvements in TWIs' effectiveness at educating blacks. (JEL I23, J15, J24, J31)
DOI: 10.3886/e113737
title: Replication data for: Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence

description: This paper examines behavior in a tournament in which we vary the tournament prize structure and the available information about participants' skill at the task of solving mazes. The number of solved mazes is lowest when payments are independent of performance; higher when a single, large prize is given; and highest when multiple, differentiated prizes are given. This result is strongest when we inform participants about the number of mazes they and others solved in a pre-tournament round. Some participants reported that they solved more mazes than they actually solved, and this misreporting also peaked with multiple differentiated prizes. (JEL D82)
DOI: 10.3886/e113737v1
title: Replication data for: Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence

description: This paper examines behavior in a tournament in which we vary the tournament prize structure and the available information about participants' skill at the task of solving mazes. The number of solved mazes is lowest when payments are independent of performance; higher when a single, large prize is given; and highest when multiple, differentiated prizes are given. This result is strongest when we inform participants about the number of mazes they and others solved in a pre-tournament round. Some participants reported that they solved more mazes than they actually solved, and this misreporting also peaked with multiple differentiated prizes. (JEL D82)
DOI: 10.3886/e114062
title: Replication data for: Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation

description: We assess how the properties of technology affect structural transformation, i.e., the reallocation of production factors across the broad sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, and services. To this end, we estimate sectoral constant elasticity of substitution (CES) and Cobb-Douglas production functions on postwar US data. We find that differences in technical progress across the three sectors are the dominant force behind structural transformation whereas other differences across sectoral technology are of second order importance. Our findings imply that Cobb-Douglas sectoral production functions that differ only in technical progress capture the main technological forces behind the postwar US structural transformation. (JEL E16, E25, O33, O47)
DOI: 10.3886/e114062v1
title: Replication data for: Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation

description: We assess how the properties of technology affect structural transformation, i.e., the reallocation of production factors across the broad sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, and services. To this end, we estimate sectoral constant elasticity of substitution (CES) and Cobb-Douglas production functions on postwar US data. We find that differences in technical progress across the three sectors are the dominant force behind structural transformation whereas other differences across sectoral technology are of second order importance. Our findings imply that Cobb-Douglas sectoral production functions that differ only in technical progress capture the main technological forces behind the postwar US structural transformation. (JEL E16, E25, O33, O47)
DOI: 10.3886/e114063
title: Replication data for: Structural Change, Growth, and Volatility

description: I construct a two-sector general equilibrium model of structural change to study the impact of sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) on cross-country differences in GDP growth and volatility. For an empirically relevant parametrization of sectoral production functions, an increase in the share of services in GDP reduces both aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) growth and volatility, thus reducing GDP growth and volatility. When the model is calibrated to the US manufacturing and service sector, the rise of the service sector occurring as income grows can account for a large fraction of the differences in per capita GDP growth and volatility between high-income economies and upper middle income economies. (JEL E23, E25, E32, L60, L80)