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Plausibly Exogenous Galore
Abad et al. (2022)
Government Arrears and Corporate Decisions: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
Firm investment and liquidity
Repayment of accumulated arrears
A large-scale financing plan of the Spanish central government in 2012 that repaid the accumulated arrears of local governments to their suppliers, during which some firms were accidentally left out of the first phase of the program and were repaid a year later
Abad et al. (2023)
Government Arrears and Corporate Decisions: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
Corporate investment
Repayment of accumulated arrears
large-scale financing plan of the Spanish government in 2012 that repays accumulated arrears of local governments to their suppliers (amounting to about 3% of Spain's GDP)
Abad et al. (2025)
Government Arrears and Corporate Policies:
Lessons from a Natural Experiment
Corporate policies
Late payments in public procurement
Public program that unexpectedly repaid local government arrears
Abboud, Bellou, and Lewis (2024)
The long-run impacts of adolescent drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
Labor market outcomes
Adolescent drinking
Cross-state variation in the rollout of “Zero Tolerance” (ZT) Laws, which set strict alcohol limits for drivers under age 21 and led to sharp reductions in youth binge drinking
Abdallah and Lastrapes (2012)
Home equity lending and retail spending: Evidence from a natural experiment in Texas
Spending
Credit constraint
1997 constitutional amendment that relaxed severe restrictions on home equity lending
Abdoulaye Cisse (2024)
The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal
Willingness to pay for electricity
Grid reliability
Variation in the timing of reliability projects in Senegal
Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011)
Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters And Pilots
Student achievement
Charter and pilot school attendance
Student admission lotteries
Abeberese et al. (2020)
How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition
Firm productivity
Democratization
Quasi-random variation in the timing of district-level political regime changes induced by the collapse of President Soeharto’s government
Abedifar, Kashizadeh, and Ongena (2022)
Flood, Farms and Credit: The role of branch banking in climate change era
Lending by local branches
Natural disasters
Iran's biggest flood of the century in April 2019 as a natural experiment
Abrahamsson, Butikofer, and Karbownik (2023)
Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Health and cognitive ability
High caloric nutrition
Spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007
Abramitzky et al. (2022)
The Effect of Labor Market Liberalization on Political Behavior and Free Market Norms
Political behavior and attitude towards free-market capitalism and socialism
Labor market liberalization
A reform whereby the Israeli socialist communities called kibbutzim shifted from equal sharing to market-based wages and its sharp and staggered implementation in different kibbutzim
Abramitzky, Boustan, and Giuntella (2025)
Enclaves and Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Ethnic Catholic Churches
Assimilation
Immigrant enclaves
Centralized location decisions for “ethnic” Catholic churches
Abrams and Wagner (2013)
Poisoning the Next Apple? The America Invents Act and Individual Inventors
Small inventors
Patenting environment
A major change in the law that shifted the patent priority rules from the United States’ traditional “first-to-invent” system to the internationally predominant “first-to-file” system
Abrams, Fang, and Goonetilleke (2022)
Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
Contraband hit rate
Number of stops
Exogenous changes in policing due to the pandemic and protests
Abrams, Fang, and Goonetilleke (2023)
Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
Hit rates
Number of stops and frisks
The COVID-19 pandemic onset and the nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd.
Abuzov, Herpfer, and Steri (2024)
Do Banks Compete on Non-Price Terms? Evidence from Loan Covenants
Interest rates
Non-price loan terms
A regulatory shock (2014 Leveraged Lending
Clarification) that restricted banks, but not non-banks, from offering covenant-lite loans
Acabbi, Panetti, and Sforza (2020)
The Financial Channels of Labor Rigidities: Evidence from Portugal
Labor market reallocation
Credit shocks
Interbank market freeze in Portugal following the failure of Lehman Brothers at the end of 2008
Acemoglu and Angrist (2000)
How large are human-capital externalities? Evidence from compulsory schooling laws
State wage levels
Education
Variation in child labor laws and compulsory attendance laws over time and across states
Acemoglu and Linn (2004)
Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Entry of new innovation
Market size
Variations in market size driven by U. S. demographic changes, which should be exogenous to other, for example scientific, determinants of innovation and entry of new drugs