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Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211152744
ISBN  
9798342108416
DDC  
070
저자명  
Conway, Jacob.
서명/저자  
Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
발행사항  
[Sl] : Stanford University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
274 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Gentzkow, Matthew.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation combines three essays that study how individuals' preferences and perceptions on social and political issues influence their behavior, with the goal of better understanding the implications for firms and society. These essays similarly focus on quantifying the causal effects of social identities, while studying distinct settings using a variety of econometric and machine learning methods.Chapter 1, "Consuming Values," is co-authored with Levi Boxell. We study the extent to which individuals' consumption decisions are influenced by firms' stances on controversial social issues and the implied incentives for firms to take such stances. We use transactions from a major payment card company to predict cardholders' likely social alignment with firm stances and to quantify effects on consumption. The social stances taken by firms increase revenue on average, with significant heterogeneity across consumers and firm stances. Consumers most aligned with a firm's social stance increase their consumption at the firm by 19 percent in the month following widely known social stance events, and consumers most opposed to the firm's stance decrease their consumption by 11 percent. These diverging consumption responses attenuate over time but persist even a year later. Firms tend to take stances that align with their consumers' and employees' social preferences and that correlate with the firm's ownership structure. Together our results show that consumers meaningfully respond to their social alignment with firms, and that this consumer response can incentivize profit-maximizing firms to engage with social issues.Chapter 2, "Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers," is also co-authored with Levi Boxell. In this essay, we quantify the role that journalists play in determining the political slant of the news they produce. We develop a model where journalists and newspaper outlets contract over both slant and wages. The model implies a set of conditions under which we can consistently estimate the role of journalist preferences in driving the observed variation in slant across outlets by leveraging journalist transitions between outlets. To measure slant, we train a transformer-based, machine learning model using articles tweeted by politicians and apply it to a full-text database of 20+ million newspaper articles published in the US between 2013 and 2018. Applying our model-informed estimators to the data, our estimates (a) reject the hypothesis that journalists have zero ideological preferences over the content they produce and (b) imply that 16 percent of observed variation in slant across outlets can be explained by journalist preferences.Chapter 3, "The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870--1940," is co-authored with Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill, and Luke Stein. We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones. To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications. Relative to sisters coded as Mulatto, sisters coded as Black had lower educational attainment, were less likely to marry, and had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination against African American women with darker perceived skin tones. In contrast, we find similar educational attainment, marital outcomes, and incomes among differently-classified brothers. Men perceived as African Americans of any skin tone faced similar contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any known Black ancestry. Lower incomes for African American men perceived as having darker skin tone in the general population were driven by differences in opportunities and resources that varied across families, likely reflecting the impacts of historical or family-level discrimination.Each of these three essays represents work-in-progress. Together, they contribute to our understanding of how social and political issues influence the incentives and behavior of firms and individuals, with implications for the fields of corporate finance and industrial organization.
일반주제명  
Journalism
일반주제명  
Journalists
일반주제명  
Gender
일반주제명  
Families & family life
일반주제명  
Age groups
일반주제명  
Race
일반주제명  
Educational attainment
일반주제명  
Partisanship
일반주제명  
Education
일반주제명  
Individual & family studies
기타저자  
Stanford University.
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
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■520    ▼aThis  dissertation  combines  three  essays  that  study  how  individuals'  preferences  and  perceptions  on  social  and  political  issues  influence  their  behavior,  with  the  goal  of  better  understanding  the  implications  for  firms  and  society.  These  essays  similarly  focus  on  quantifying  the  causal  effects  of  social  identities,  while  studying  distinct  settings  using  a  variety  of  econometric  and  machine  learning  methods.Chapter  1,  "Consuming  Values,"  is  co-authored  with  Levi  Boxell.  We  study  the  extent  to  which  individuals'  consumption  decisions  are  influenced  by  firms'  stances  on  controversial  social  issues  and  the  implied  incentives  for  firms  to  take  such  stances.  We  use  transactions  from  a  major  payment  card  company  to  predict  cardholders'  likely  social  alignment  with  firm  stances  and  to  quantify  effects  on  consumption.  The  social  stances  taken  by  firms  increase  revenue  on  average,  with  significant  heterogeneity  across  consumers  and  firm  stances.  Consumers  most  aligned  with  a  firm's  social  stance  increase  their  consumption  at  the  firm  by  19  percent  in  the  month  following  widely  known  social  stance  events,  and  consumers  most  opposed  to  the  firm's  stance  decrease  their  consumption  by  11  percent.  These  diverging  consumption  responses  attenuate  over  time  but  persist  even  a  year  later.  Firms  tend  to  take  stances  that  align  with  their  consumers'  and  employees'  social  preferences  and  that  correlate  with  the  firm's  ownership  structure.  Together  our  results  show  that  consumers  meaningfully  respond  to  their  social  alignment  with  firms,  and  that  this  consumer  response  can  incentivize  profit-maximizing  firms  to  engage  with  social  issues.Chapter  2,  "Journalist  Ideology  and  the  Production  of  News:  Evidence  from  Movers,"  is  also  co-authored  with  Levi  Boxell.  In  this  essay,  we  quantify  the  role  that  journalists  play  in  determining  the  political  slant  of  the  news  they  produce.  We  develop  a  model  where  journalists  and  newspaper  outlets  contract  over  both  slant  and  wages.  The  model  implies  a  set  of  conditions  under  which  we  can  consistently  estimate  the  role  of  journalist  preferences  in  driving  the  observed  variation  in  slant  across  outlets  by  leveraging  journalist  transitions  between  outlets.  To  measure  slant,  we  train  a  transformer-based,  machine  learning  model  using  articles  tweeted  by  politicians  and  apply  it  to  a  full-text  database  of  20+  million  newspaper  articles  published  in  the  US  between  2013  and  2018.  Applying  our  model-informed  estimators  to  the  data,  our  estimates  (a)  reject  the  hypothesis  that  journalists  have  zero  ideological  preferences  over  the  content  they  produce  and  (b)  imply  that  16  percent  of  observed  variation  in  slant  across  outlets  can  be  explained  by  journalist  preferences.Chapter  3,  "The  Gendered  Impacts  of  Perceived  Skin  Tone:  Evidence  from  African  American  Siblings  in  1870--1940,"  is  co-authored  with  Ran  Abramitzky,  Roy  Mill,  and  Luke  Stein.  We  study  differences  in  economic  outcomes  by  perceived  skin  tone  among  African  Americans  using  full-count  U.S.  decennial  census  data  from  the  late-19th  and  early-20th  centuries.  Comparing  children  coded  as  "Black"  or  "Mulatto"  by  census  enumerators  and  linking  these  children  across  population  censuses,  we  first  document  large  gaps  in  educational  attainment  and  income  among  African  Americans  with  darker  and  lighter  perceived  skin  tones.  To  disentangle  the  drivers  of  these  gaps,  we  identify  all  36,329  families  in  which  enumerators  assigned  same-gender  siblings  different  Black/Mulatto  classifications.  Relative  to  sisters  coded  as  Mulatto,  sisters  coded  as  Black  had  lower  educational  attainment,  were  less  likely  to  marry,  and  had  lower-earning,  less-educated  husbands.  These  patterns  are  consistent  with  more  severe  contemporaneous  discrimination  against  African  American  women  with  darker  perceived  skin  tones.  In  contrast,  we  find  similar  educational  attainment,  marital  outcomes,  and  incomes  among  differently-classified  brothers.  Men  perceived  as  African  Americans  of  any  skin  tone  faced  similar  contemporaneous  discrimination,  consistent  with  the  "one-drop"  racial  classification  rule  that  grouped  together  individuals  with  any  known  Black  ancestry.  Lower  incomes  for  African  American  men  perceived  as  having  darker  skin  tone  in  the  general  population  were  driven  by  differences  in  opportunities  and  resources  that  varied  across  families,  likely  reflecting  the  impacts  of  historical  or  family-level  discrimination.Each  of  these  three  essays  represents  work-in-progress.  Together,  they  contribute  to  our  understanding  of  how  social  and  political  issues  influence  the  incentives  and  behavior  of  firms  and  individuals,  with  implications  for  the  fields  of  corporate  finance  and  industrial  organization.
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