cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.3886/e112698
title: Replication data for: Efficiency, Equality, and Labeling: An Experimental Investigation of Focal Points in Explicit Bargaining

description: We investigate Schelling's hypothesis that payoff-irrelevant labels ("cues") can influence the outcomes of bargaining games with communication. In our experimental games, players negotiate over the division of a surplus by claiming valuable objects that have payoff-irrelevant spatial locations. Negotiation occurs in continuous time, constrained by a deadline. In some games, spatial cues are opposed to principles of equality or efficiency. We find a strong tendency for players to agree on efficient and minimally unequal payoff divisions, even if spatial cues suggest otherwise. But if there are two such divisions, cues are often used to select between them, inducing distributional effects.
DOI: 10.3886/e112699v1
title: Replication data for: Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited

description: This paper revisits the results of Moskowitz and Vissing-Jøgensen (2002) on returns to entrepreneurial investments in the United States. Following the authors' methodology and new data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the "private equity premium puzzle" does not survive the period of high public equity returns in the 1990s. The difference between private and public equity returns is positive and large period-by-period between 1999 and 2007. Whereas in the 2008-2010 period, overlapping with the Great Recession, public and private equities performances are substantially closer. I validate these results in the aggregate data going back to the 1960s.
DOI: 10.3886/e112312
title: Replication data for: Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background".
DOI: 10.3886/e112312v1
title: Replication data for: Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background".
DOI: 10.3886/e112313
title: Replication data for: Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment".
DOI: 10.3886/e112313v1
title: Replication data for: Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment".
DOI: 10.3886/e112314
title: Replication data for: Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy".
DOI: 10.3886/e112314v1
title: Replication data for: Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy".
DOI: 10.3886/e112315v1
title: Replication data for: The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and Why Such Failures Are Rare)

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and Why Such Failures Are Rare)".
DOI: 10.3886/e112456v1
title: Replication data for: The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities

description: The distribution of city populations has attracted much attention, in part because it constrains models of local growth. However, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on "legal" rather than "economic" definitions for medium and small cities. To remedy this difficulty, we construct cities "from the bottom up" by clustering populated areas obtained from high-resolution data. We find that Zipf's law for population holds for cities as small as 5,000 inhabitants in Great Britain and 12,000 inhabitants in the US. We also find a Zipf's law for areas. JEL: R11, R12, R23
DOI: 10.3886/e112497
title: Replication data for: Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

description: Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the effects of compulsory licensing on domestic invention. Difference-in-differences analyses of nearly 130,000 chemical inventions suggest that compulsory licensing increased domestic invention by 20 percent. (JEL D45, L24, N42, O31, O34)
DOI: 10.3886/e112699
title: Replication data for: Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited

description: This paper revisits the results of Moskowitz and Vissing-Jøgensen (2002) on returns to entrepreneurial investments in the United States. Following the authors' methodology and new data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the "private equity premium puzzle" does not survive the period of high public equity returns in the 1990s. The difference between private and public equity returns is positive and large period-by-period between 1999 and 2007. Whereas in the 2008-2010 period, overlapping with the Great Recession, public and private equities performances are substantially closer. I validate these results in the aggregate data going back to the 1960s.
DOI: 10.3886/e112700
title: Replication data for: How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

description: To combat adverse selection, governments increasingly base payments to health plans and providers on enrollees' scores from risk-adjustment formulae. In 2004, Medicare began to risk-adjust capitation payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to reduce selection-driven overpayments. But because the variance of medical costs increases with the predicted mean, incentivizing enrollment of individuals with higher scores can increase the scope for enrolling "overpriced" individuals with costs significantly below the formula's prediction. Indeed, after risk adjustment, MA plans enrolled individuals with higher scores but lower costs conditional on their score. We find no evidence that overpayments were on net reduced.
DOI: 10.3886/e112700v1
title: Replication data for: How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

description: To combat adverse selection, governments increasingly base payments to health plans and providers on enrollees' scores from risk-adjustment formulae. In 2004, Medicare began to risk-adjust capitation payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to reduce selection-driven overpayments. But because the variance of medical costs increases with the predicted mean, incentivizing enrollment of individuals with higher scores can increase the scope for enrolling "overpriced" individuals with costs significantly below the formula's prediction. Indeed, after risk adjustment, MA plans enrolled individuals with higher scores but lower costs conditional on their score. We find no evidence that overpayments were on net reduced.
DOI: 10.3886/e112701
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Mergers in Search Markets: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Industry

description: We examine the relationship between concentration and price dispersion using variation induced by a merger in the Canadian mortgage market. Since interest rates are determined through a search and negotiation process, consolidation weakens consumers' bargaining positions. We use reduced-form techniques to estimate the mergers' distributional impact, and show that competition benefits only consumers at the bottom and middle of the transaction price distribution, and that mergers reduce the dispersion of prices. We illustrate that these effects can be explained by the presence of search frictions, and that the average effect of mergers on rates underestimates the increase in market power.
DOI: 10.3886/e112701v1
title: Replication data for: The Effect of Mergers in Search Markets: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Industry

description: We examine the relationship between concentration and price dispersion using variation induced by a merger in the Canadian mortgage market. Since interest rates are determined through a search and negotiation process, consolidation weakens consumers' bargaining positions. We use reduced-form techniques to estimate the mergers' distributional impact, and show that competition benefits only consumers at the bottom and middle of the transaction price distribution, and that mergers reduce the dispersion of prices. We illustrate that these effects can be explained by the presence of search frictions, and that the average effect of mergers on rates underestimates the increase in market power.
DOI: 10.3886/e112702
title: Replication data for: A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

description: We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I and II errors. If trial courts were unbiased, conditional on defendants race the error rate should be independent of the victims race. Instead we uncover 3 and 9 percentage points higher reversal rates in Direct Appeal and Habeas Corpus cases, respectively, against minority defendants who killed whites. The pattern for white defendants is opposite but not statistically significant. This bias is confined to Southern States.
DOI: 10.3886/e112702v1
title: Replication data for: A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

description: We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I and II errors. If trial courts were unbiased, conditional on defendants race the error rate should be independent of the victims race. Instead we uncover 3 and 9 percentage points higher reversal rates in Direct Appeal and Habeas Corpus cases, respectively, against minority defendants who killed whites. The pattern for white defendants is opposite but not statistically significant. This bias is confined to Southern States.
DOI: 10.3886/e112703v1
title: Replication data for: On the Selection of Arbitrators

description: A key feature of arbitration is the possibility for conflicting parties to participate in the selection of the arbitrator, the individual who will rule the case. We analyze this problem of the selection of arbitrators from the perspective of implementation theory. In particular, theoretical analyses document problems with veto-rank, a simultaneous procedure that is commonly used in practice, and develop a new sequential procedure, shortlisting, with better properties. Experimental results are consistent with the theoretical predictions, highlighting both the disadvantages associated with the veto-rank procedure and the advantages associated with the short-listing procedure.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3483189
title: Exploring the impact of a brief mindfulness induction on motor inhibitory control

description: It is the behavioral dataset collected from healthy participants on three different conditions; mindfulness induction, resting and listening to favorite music.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3483190
title: Exploring the impact of a brief mindfulness induction on motor inhibitory control

description: It is the behavioral dataset collected from healthy participants on three different conditions; mindfulness induction, resting and listening to favorite music.
DOI: 10.3886/e112316v1
title: Replication data for: Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment".
DOI: 10.3886/e112456
title: Replication data for: The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities

description: The distribution of city populations has attracted much attention, in part because it constrains models of local growth. However, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on "legal" rather than "economic" definitions for medium and small cities. To remedy this difficulty, we construct cities "from the bottom up" by clustering populated areas obtained from high-resolution data. We find that Zipf's law for population holds for cities as small as 5,000 inhabitants in Great Britain and 12,000 inhabitants in the US. We also find a Zipf's law for areas. JEL: R11, R12, R23
DOI: 10.3886/e112703
title: Replication data for: On the Selection of Arbitrators

description: A key feature of arbitration is the possibility for conflicting parties to participate in the selection of the arbitrator, the individual who will rule the case. We analyze this problem of the selection of arbitrators from the perspective of implementation theory. In particular, theoretical analyses document problems with veto-rank, a simultaneous procedure that is commonly used in practice, and develop a new sequential procedure, shortlisting, with better properties. Experimental results are consistent with the theoretical predictions, highlighting both the disadvantages associated with the veto-rank procedure and the advantages associated with the short-listing procedure.
DOI: 10.3886/e112704
title: Replication data for: Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

description: We survey 561 students from U.S. medical schools shortly after they submit choice rankings over residencies to the National Resident Matching Program. We elicit (a) these choice rankings, (b) anticipated subjective well-being (SWB) rankings, and (c) expected features of the residencies (such as prestige). We find substantial differences between choice and anticipated-SWB rankings in the implied tradeoffs between residency features. In our data, evaluative SWB measures (life satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as close as do multi-measure SWB indices. We discuss implications for using SWB data in applied work.
DOI: 10.3886/e112704v1
title: Replication data for: Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

description: We survey 561 students from U.S. medical schools shortly after they submit choice rankings over residencies to the National Resident Matching Program. We elicit (a) these choice rankings, (b) anticipated subjective well-being (SWB) rankings, and (c) expected features of the residencies (such as prestige). We find substantial differences between choice and anticipated-SWB rankings in the implied tradeoffs between residency features. In our data, evaluative SWB measures (life satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as close as do multi-measure SWB indices. We discuss implications for using SWB data in applied work.
DOI: 10.15139/s3/ohag2a
title: Monmouth University New Jersey Poll, Number 184

description: This survey was conducted among residents of New Jersey and addresses job ratings for Governor Phil Murphy, President Donald Trump, Senator Cory Booker and Senator Bob Menedez, Murphy's policies, minimum wage increase, and legalization of marijuana. Also included are questions on the reports concerning the Murphy administration hiring someone accused of rape, New Jersey quality of life, Cory Booker's presidential run, wind farms, nuclear power plants and off-shore drilling,
DOI: 10.3886/e112316
title: Replication data for: Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment".
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/a6b6175f8a064fe2bd35a62e2de0cc25
title: Rainfall runoff and sediment deposition from 2 x 2 meter plots in grassland and creosotebush communities at the Jornada Basin LTER, 1982-1994

description: This data package contains data from natural rainfall-runoff plots installed on lands managed by the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (CDRRC) and the Jornada Experimental Range (JER) during the early years of Jornada Basin LTER (LTER-I and II). The purpose of this study was to measure infiltration and runoff rates related to rain event duration and intensity, and soil and organic movement in creosotebush and grassland areas. In addition, some plots were treated with chlordane to remove termites. Nine hydrology runoff plots in the creosotebush sites (Larrea tridentata) were established in 1983 and 12 black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda) grassland runoff plots were established in 1989. Each plot was 2 × 2 square meters and surrounded on 3 sides by a metal frame. Rainfall was collected using a 10-cm diameter PVC pipe and a 120-liter tub. There are 4074 plot-events or observations in the data set. The data set includes the date of the rainfall event, relative cover of vegetation, sediment concentration in runoff (mg/l), precipitation (mm), deposited sediment, and percent carbon. This study began in fall 1982 and was completed in fall 1994.
DOI: 10.3886/e112317v1
title: Replication data for: Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars".
DOI: 10.3886/e112498
title: Replication data for: Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences

description: We propose a method that enables one to test efficient risk sharing even when households have different risk preferences. The method is composed of three tests. The first one determines whether in the data households have homogeneous risk preferences. The second and third tests evaluate efficient risk sharing when the hypothesis of homogeneous risk preferences is rejected. We use this method to test efficient risk sharing in rural India. Using the first test, we strongly reject the hypothesis of identical risk preferences. Using the second and third tests, we reject efficiency at the village but not at the caste level. (JEL D12, D86, G22, O12, O18, R23, Z13)
DOI: 10.3886/e112498v1
title: Replication data for: Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences

description: We propose a method that enables one to test efficient risk sharing even when households have different risk preferences. The method is composed of three tests. The first one determines whether in the data households have homogeneous risk preferences. The second and third tests evaluate efficient risk sharing when the hypothesis of homogeneous risk preferences is rejected. We use this method to test efficient risk sharing in rural India. Using the first test, we strongly reject the hypothesis of identical risk preferences. Using the second and third tests, we reject efficiency at the village but not at the caste level. (JEL D12, D86, G22, O12, O18, R23, Z13)
DOI: 10.3886/e112499
title: Replication data for: A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

description: We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort sequential-move tournament. We predict that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point, responds negatively to her rival's effort. We find significant evidence for this discouragement effect, and use the Method of Simulated Moments to estimate the strength of disappointment aversion on average and the heterogeneity in disappointment aversion across the population. (JEL C91, D12, D81, D84)
DOI: 10.3886/e112499v1
title: Replication data for: A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

description: We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort sequential-move tournament. We predict that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point, responds negatively to her rival's effort. We find significant evidence for this discouragement effect, and use the Method of Simulated Moments to estimate the strength of disappointment aversion on average and the heterogeneity in disappointment aversion across the population. (JEL C91, D12, D81, D84)
DOI: 10.3886/e112500
title: Replication data for: Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?

description: Average living standards are converging among developing countries and faster growing economies see more progress against poverty. Yet we do not find poverty convergence; countries starting with higher poverty rates do not see higher proportionate rates of poverty reduction. The paper tries to explain why. Analysis of a new dataset suggests that, at given mean consumption, high initial poverty has an adverse effect on consumption growth and also makes growth less poverty-reducing. Thus, for many poor countries, the growth advantage of starting out with a low mean is lost due to a high incidence of poverty. (JEL D63, I31, I32, O15)
DOI: 10.3886/e112500v1
title: Replication data for: Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?

description: Average living standards are converging among developing countries and faster growing economies see more progress against poverty. Yet we do not find poverty convergence; countries starting with higher poverty rates do not see higher proportionate rates of poverty reduction. The paper tries to explain why. Analysis of a new dataset suggests that, at given mean consumption, high initial poverty has an adverse effect on consumption growth and also makes growth less poverty-reducing. Thus, for many poor countries, the growth advantage of starting out with a low mean is lost due to a high incidence of poverty. (JEL D63, I31, I32, O15)
DOI: 10.3886/e112501
title: Replication data for: Was the New Deal Contractionary?

description: Can government policies that increase the monopoly power of firms and the militancy of unions increase output? This paper shows that the answer is yes under certain "emergency" conditions. These emergency conditions—zero interest rates and deflation—were satisfied during the Great Depression in the United States. The New Deal, which facilitated monopolies and union militancy, was therefore expansionary in the model presented. This conclusion is contrary to a large previous literature. The main reason for this divergence is that this paper incorporates rigid prices and the zero bound on the short-term interest rate. (JEL E23, E32, E52, E62, J51, N12, N42)
DOI: 10.3886/e112501v1
title: Replication data for: Was the New Deal Contractionary?

description: Can government policies that increase the monopoly power of firms and the militancy of unions increase output? This paper shows that the answer is yes under certain "emergency" conditions. These emergency conditions—zero interest rates and deflation—were satisfied during the Great Depression in the United States. The New Deal, which facilitated monopolies and union militancy, was therefore expansionary in the model presented. This conclusion is contrary to a large previous literature. The main reason for this divergence is that this paper incorporates rigid prices and the zero bound on the short-term interest rate. (JEL E23, E32, E52, E62, J51, N12, N42)