cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.3886/e116217
title: Replication data for: The World Technology Frontier

description: We study cross-country differences in the aggregate production function when skilled and unskilled labor are imperfect substitutes. We find that there is a skill bias in cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled labor more efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relatively and, possibly, absolutely less efficiently. We also propose a simple explanation for our findings: rich countries, which are skilled-labor abundant, choose technologies that are best suited to skilled workers; poor countries, which are unskilled-labor abundant, choose technologies more appropriate to unskilled workers. We discuss alternative explanations, such as capital-skill complementarity and differences in schooling quality. (JEL E13, E23, J31, O14)
DOI: 10.3886/e116218
title: Replication data for: Medium-Term Business Cycles

description: Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend. In this paper we explore whether they may, instead, reflect a persistent response of economic activity to the high-frequency fluctuations normally associated with the cycle. We define as the medium-term cycle the sum of the highand medium-frequency variation in the data, and then show that these kinds of fluctuations are substantially more volatile and persistent than are the conventional measures. These fluctuations, further, feature significant procyclical movements in both embodied and disembodied technological change, and research and development (R&D), as well as the efficiency and intensity of resource utilization. We then develop a model of medium-term business cycles. A virtue of the framework is that, in addition to offering a unified approach to explaining the high- and mediumfrequency variation in the data, it fully endogenizes the movements in productivity that appear central to the persistence of these fluctuations. For comparison, we also explore how well an exogenous productivity model can explain the facts. (JEL E3, O3)
DOI: 10.3886/e116218v1
title: Replication data for: Medium-Term Business Cycles

description: Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend. In this paper we explore whether they may, instead, reflect a persistent response of economic activity to the high-frequency fluctuations normally associated with the cycle. We define as the medium-term cycle the sum of the highand medium-frequency variation in the data, and then show that these kinds of fluctuations are substantially more volatile and persistent than are the conventional measures. These fluctuations, further, feature significant procyclical movements in both embodied and disembodied technological change, and research and development (R&D), as well as the efficiency and intensity of resource utilization. We then develop a model of medium-term business cycles. A virtue of the framework is that, in addition to offering a unified approach to explaining the high- and mediumfrequency variation in the data, it fully endogenizes the movements in productivity that appear central to the persistence of these fluctuations. For comparison, we also explore how well an exogenous productivity model can explain the facts. (JEL E3, O3)
DOI: 10.3886/e116219
title: Replication data for: Media Frenzies in Markets for Financial Information

description: Emerging equity markets witness occasional surges in prices (frenzies) and crossmarket price dispersion (herds), accompanied by abundant media coverage. An information market complementarity can explain these anomalies. Because information has high fixed costs, high volume makes it inexpensive. Low prices induce investors to buy information that others buy. Given two identical assets, investors learn about one; abundant information reduces its payoff risk and raises its price. Transitions between low-information/low-asset-price and high-information/highasset- price equilibria resemble frenzies. Equity data and new panel data on news coverage support the model's predictions: Asset market movements generate news and news raises prices and price dispersion. (JEL D82, G12, G14)
DOI: 10.3886/e116219v1
title: Replication data for: Media Frenzies in Markets for Financial Information

description: Emerging equity markets witness occasional surges in prices (frenzies) and crossmarket price dispersion (herds), accompanied by abundant media coverage. An information market complementarity can explain these anomalies. Because information has high fixed costs, high volume makes it inexpensive. Low prices induce investors to buy information that others buy. Given two identical assets, investors learn about one; abundant information reduces its payoff risk and raises its price. Transitions between low-information/low-asset-price and high-information/highasset- price equilibria resemble frenzies. Equity data and new panel data on news coverage support the model's predictions: Asset market movements generate news and news raises prices and price dispersion. (JEL D82, G12, G14)
DOI: 10.3886/e116220
title: Replication data for: A Change Would Do You Good .... An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations

description: We study how financial incentives can be used to overcome a history of coordination failure using controlled laboratory experiments. Subjects' payoffs depend on coordinating at high effort levels. In an initial phase, the benefits of coordination are low, and play typically converges to an inefficient outcome. We then explore varying financial incentives to coordinate at a higher effort level. An increase in the benefits of coordination leads to improved coordination, but large increases have no more impact than small increases. Once subjects have coordinated on a higher effort level, reductions in the incentives to coordinate have little effect on behavior. (JEL C92, D23, J31, L23, M52)
DOI: 10.3886/e116220v1
title: Replication data for: A Change Would Do You Good .... An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations

description: We study how financial incentives can be used to overcome a history of coordination failure using controlled laboratory experiments. Subjects' payoffs depend on coordinating at high effort levels. In an initial phase, the benefits of coordination are low, and play typically converges to an inefficient outcome. We then explore varying financial incentives to coordinate at a higher effort level. An increase in the benefits of coordination leads to improved coordination, but large increases have no more impact than small increases. Once subjects have coordinated on a higher effort level, reductions in the incentives to coordinate have little effect on behavior. (JEL C92, D23, J31, L23, M52)
DOI: 10.3886/e116344
title: Replication data for: Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India

description: Access to banks is rapidly increasing worldwide, and allows account-based instead of cash transfers. We conduct a randomized experiment documenting the impact of the payment method on savings behavior. In India, we allocate identical weekly payments into a bank account (treated) or in cash (control). Savings in the account increase by 131 percent within three months, and the effect is long lasting. We also show that cash payments increase consumption and that—once everyone is paid in cash again—the saving patterns no longer differ. We interpret these findings as a default effect, and we further discuss plausible mechanisms.
DOI: 10.3886/e116344v1
title: Replication data for: Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India

description: Access to banks is rapidly increasing worldwide, and allows account-based instead of cash transfers. We conduct a randomized experiment documenting the impact of the payment method on savings behavior. In India, we allocate identical weekly payments into a bank account (treated) or in cash (control). Savings in the account increase by 131 percent within three months, and the effect is long lasting. We also show that cash payments increase consumption and that—once everyone is paid in cash again—the saving patterns no longer differ. We interpret these findings as a default effect, and we further discuss plausible mechanisms.
DOI: 10.3886/e116345
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

description: This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks by exploiting the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks. The findings suggest that successful attacks, in comparison to failed attacks, reduce the number of jobs and total earnings in targeted counties by approximately 2 percent in the years following the attack. Analyzing the channels, I find that successful attacks affect, in particular, specific industries such as housing. Last, I show that successful attacks receive more media coverage and increase levels of consumer pessimism in terms of business conditions and buying conditions.
DOI: 10.3886/e116345v1
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

description: This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks by exploiting the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks. The findings suggest that successful attacks, in comparison to failed attacks, reduce the number of jobs and total earnings in targeted counties by approximately 2 percent in the years following the attack. Analyzing the channels, I find that successful attacks affect, in particular, specific industries such as housing. Last, I show that successful attacks receive more media coverage and increase levels of consumer pessimism in terms of business conditions and buying conditions.
DOI: 10.3886/e116346
title: Replication data for: Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

description: We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17, 10, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits in treatment accounts were sizable among users, corresponding to the seventy-ninth, ninety-first, and ninety-sixth percentiles of baseline savings. Survey data show no discernible intention-to-treat effects on savings or any downstream outcomes, though we cannot reject large effect sizes for active users. Results suggest that policies merely focused on expanding access to basic accounts are unlikely to improve welfare noticeably on average.
DOI: 10.3886/e116346v1
title: Replication data for: Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

description: We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17, 10, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits in treatment accounts were sizable among users, corresponding to the seventy-ninth, ninety-first, and ninety-sixth percentiles of baseline savings. Survey data show no discernible intention-to-treat effects on savings or any downstream outcomes, though we cannot reject large effect sizes for active users. Results suggest that policies merely focused on expanding access to basic accounts are unlikely to improve welfare noticeably on average.
DOI: 10.3886/e116347
title: Replication data for: Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers

description: Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee's personality. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend. Estimates suggest that a median worker is willing to pay 4.5 percent of her wage to work next to friends.
DOI: 10.3886/e116347v1
title: Replication data for: Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers

description: Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee's personality. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend. Estimates suggest that a median worker is willing to pay 4.5 percent of her wage to work next to friends.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3566004
title: Christchurch Aerial Semantic Dataset

description: The <strong>Christchurch Aerial Semantic Dataset (CASD)</strong> comprises aerial imagery at very high resolution over Christchurch, New-Zealand, and reference semantic data for urban objects such as buildings, vegetation and vehicles. It aims to foster developments of new methods for Earth observation including automatic image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, semi-supervised learning, etc... <strong>Aerial imagery</strong> consists in the Christchurch Earthquake Imagery dataset, released by Land Information New Zealand: https://www.linz.govt.nz/land/maps/linz-topographic-maps/imagery-orthophotos/christchurch-earthquake-imagery <strong>Annotations</strong> were produced by ONERA/DTIS on 4 images. Three classes were tagged: buildings (797 objects), cars (2357 objects), and vegetation (938 objects). All objects are given as polygonal bounding boxes (shapefiles) and image semantic masks (rasters). <strong>License</strong> This imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with Crown copyright reserved. This means anyone is free to copy, distribute, and adapt the imagery so long as it is attributed to the Crown, eg ”Crown Copyright Reserved.” The annotations are licensed also under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with authors’ and ONERA copyright reserved. This means anyone is free to copy, distribute, and adapt the annotations as long as they are attributed to the authors and ONERA. For research papers, acknowledgments can be done by citing the authors’ works: <em>H. Randrianarivo, B. Le Saux, and M. Ferecatu. Man-made structure detection with deformable part-based models. In IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Melbourne, Australia, July 2013</em> <em>N. Audebert, B. Le Saux, and S. Lefèvre. Segment-before-Detect: Vehicle Detection and Classification through Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Images. Remote Sensing, 9(4):1–18, April 2017</em>
description: {"references": ["Randrianarivo, H. et al. (2013), Man-made structure detection with deformable part-based models, Proc. IGARSS", "Randrianarivo, H. et al. (2015). Discriminatively- trained model mixture for object detection in aerial images. Proc. IIM", "Audebert et al. (2017). Segment-before-Detect: Vehicle Detec- tion and Classification through Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Images, Remote Sensing, 9(4)"]}
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3566005
title: Christchurch Aerial Semantic Dataset

description: The <strong>Christchurch Aerial Semantic Dataset (CASD)</strong> comprises aerial imagery at very high resolution over Christchurch, New-Zealand, and reference semantic data for urban objects such as buildings, vegetation and vehicles. It aims to foster developments of new methods for Earth observation including automatic image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, semi-supervised learning, etc... <strong>Aerial imagery</strong> consists in the Christchurch Earthquake Imagery dataset, released by Land Information New Zealand: https://www.linz.govt.nz/land/maps/linz-topographic-maps/imagery-orthophotos/christchurch-earthquake-imagery <strong>Annotations</strong> were produced by ONERA/DTIS on 4 images. Three classes were tagged: buildings (797 objects), cars (2357 objects), and vegetation (938 objects). All objects are given as polygonal bounding boxes (shapefiles) and image semantic masks (rasters). <strong>License</strong> This imagery is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with Crown copyright reserved. This means anyone is free to copy, distribute, and adapt the imagery so long as it is attributed to the Crown, eg ”Crown Copyright Reserved.” The annotations are licensed also under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with authors’ and ONERA copyright reserved. This means anyone is free to copy, distribute, and adapt the annotations as long as they are attributed to the authors and ONERA. For research papers, acknowledgments can be done by citing the authors’ works: <em>H. Randrianarivo, B. Le Saux, and M. Ferecatu. Man-made structure detection with deformable part-based models. In IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Melbourne, Australia, July 2013</em> <em>N. Audebert, B. Le Saux, and S. Lefèvre. Segment-before-Detect: Vehicle Detection and Classification through Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Images. Remote Sensing, 9(4):1–18, April 2017</em>
description: {"references": ["Randrianarivo, H. et al. (2013), Man-made structure detection with deformable part-based models, Proc. IGARSS", "Randrianarivo, H. et al. (2015). Discriminatively- trained model mixture for object detection in aerial images. Proc. IIM", "Audebert et al. (2017). Segment-before-Detect: Vehicle Detec- tion and Classification through Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Images, Remote Sensing, 9(4)"]}
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3566078
title: GISerDaiShaoqing/Urban-Carbon-Dioxide-sources-gridded-maps-and-its-detemination-in-Jinjiang-city 0.3

description: Open geospatial data including high-resolution Carbon Dioxide emissions gridded maps and urban form fragmentation metrics at the urban sclae. It's useful for design of the climate mitigation policy.
DOI: 10.3886/e116221v1
title: Replication data for: Paying Not to Go to the Gym

description: How do consumers choose from a menu of contracts? We analyze a novel dataset from three U.S. health clubs with information on both the contractual choice and the day-to-day attendance decisions of 7,752 members over three years. The observed consumer behavior is difficult to reconcile with standard preferences and beliefs. First, members who choose a contract with a flat monthly fee of over $70 attend on average 4.3 times per month. They pay a price per expected visit of more than $17, even though they could pay $10 per visit using a 10-visit pass. On average, these users forgo savings of $600 during their membership. Second, consumers who choose a monthly contract are 17 percent more likely to stay enrolled beyond one year than users committing for a year. This is surprising because monthly members pay higher fees for the option to cancel each month. We also document cancellation delays and attendance expectations, among other findings. Leading explanations for our findings are overconfidence about future self-control or about future efficiency. Overconfident agents overestimate attendance as well as the cancellation probability of automatically renewed contracts. Our results suggest that making inferences from observed contract choice under the rational expectation hypothesis can lead to biases in the estimation of consumer preferences. (JEL D00, D12, D91)
DOI: 10.3886/e116222
title: Replication data for: Pareto-Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete!?

description: This paper studies an overlapping generations model with stochastic production and incomplete markets to assess whether the introduction of an unfunded social security system leads to a Pareto improvement. When returns to capital and wages are imperfectly correlated, a system that endows retired households with claims to labor income enhances the sharing of aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the introduction of social security represents a Pareto-improving reform, even when the economy is dynamically efficient. However, the severity of the crowding-out effect in general equilibrium tends to overturn these gains. (JEL D58, D91, E62, H31, H55)
DOI: 10.3886/e116222v1
title: Replication data for: Pareto-Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete!?

description: This paper studies an overlapping generations model with stochastic production and incomplete markets to assess whether the introduction of an unfunded social security system leads to a Pareto improvement. When returns to capital and wages are imperfectly correlated, a system that endows retired households with claims to labor income enhances the sharing of aggregate risk between generations. Our quantitative analysis shows that, abstracting from the capital crowding-out effect, the introduction of social security represents a Pareto-improving reform, even when the economy is dynamically efficient. However, the severity of the crowding-out effect in general equilibrium tends to overturn these gains. (JEL D58, D91, E62, H31, H55)
DOI: 10.3886/e116223
title: Replication data for: Investment Behavior, Observable Expectations, and Internal Funds

description: We use earnings forecasts from securities analysts to construct a new measure of the neoclassical fundamentals that drive investment spending. We find that investment responds significantly to our new measure of fundamentals but is insensitive to cash flow, even for firms typically thought to be liquidity constrained. These results have two key implications. First, fundamentals may be more important for investment spending than would be suggested by the results to date from investment-q models. Second, the positive cash-flow effects obtained in such models may reflect a failure to control properly for fundamentals rather than the presence of financial constraints. (JEL: D92, E22)
DOI: 10.3886/e116223v1
title: Replication data for: Investment Behavior, Observable Expectations, and Internal Funds

description: We use earnings forecasts from securities analysts to construct a new measure of the neoclassical fundamentals that drive investment spending. We find that investment responds significantly to our new measure of fundamentals but is insensitive to cash flow, even for firms typically thought to be liquidity constrained. These results have two key implications. First, fundamentals may be more important for investment spending than would be suggested by the results to date from investment-q models. Second, the positive cash-flow effects obtained in such models may reflect a failure to control properly for fundamentals rather than the presence of financial constraints. (JEL: D92, E22)