Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care [0.03%]
变 straw 为 bricks：卫生系统的资源与生产率问题
Edward N Okeke
Edward N Okeke
Why do health facilities in developing countries do so poorly? This paper examines the role of financial constraints. I describe an experiment in which we surprised health workers in randomly selected public health clinics in Nigeria with a...
A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh† [0.03%]
终止儿童婚姻的信号：来自孟加拉国的理论与实证证据
Nina Buchmann,Erica Field,Rachel Glennerster et al.
Nina Buchmann et al.
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We experimentally evaluate a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls' empowerment program in Bangladesh. While girls eligible...
Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services [0.03%]
人才选拔过程中利他行为的缺失？公共服务业中的筛选、选择和生产率关系研究
Nava Ashraf,Oriana Bandiera,Edward Davenport et al.
Nava Ashraf et al.
We embed a field experiment in a nationwide recruitment drive for a new health care position in Zambia to test whether career benefits attract talent at the expense of prosocial motivation. In line with common wisdom, offering career opport...
Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries [0.03%]
物有所值：低收入国家肥胖益处的实验证据
Elisa Macchi
Elisa Macchi
I study the economic value of obesity-a status symbol in poor countries associated with raised health risks. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I find that obesity is perceived as a reliable...
David C Chan,David Card,Lowell Taylor
David C Chan
We study public versus private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who may receive care provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private hospitals financed by Medicare. Utilizing the ambulance design...
The Demand for Insurance and Rationale for a Mandate: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Insurance [0.03%]
对保险的需求和强制令的理由：来自工伤赔偿保险的证据
Marika Cabral,Can Cui,Michael Dworsky
Marika Cabral
Workers' compensation insurance, which provides no-fault coverage for work-related injuries, is mandatory in nearly all states. We use administrative data from a unique market without a coverage mandate to estimate the demand for workers' c...
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D [0.03%]
默认效果的行为基础理论及Medicare B部分的证据
Zarek Brot-Goldberg,Timothy Layton,Boris Vabson et al.
Zarek Brot-Goldberg et al.
We show in two natural experiments that default rules in Medicare Part D have large, persistent effects on enrollment and drug utilization of low-income beneficiaries. The implications of this phenomenon for welfare and optimal policy depen...
David Arnold,Will Dobbie,Peter Hull
David Arnold
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure disparate impact, regardless of its source, in the context of bail decisions. We show that omitted variables bias in pretrial release rate comparisons can be purged by using the quasi-rando...
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms [0.03%]
独当一面：增强女性金融控制力如何影响劳动参与和性别规范
Erica Field,Rohini Pande,Natalia Rigol et al.
Erica Field et al.
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public s...
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health [0.03%]
儿童接触安全网的多代影响：早期生命接触医疗补助计划与下一代的健康状况
Chloe N East,Sarah Miller,Marianne Page et al.
Chloe N East et al.
We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero health interventions using a new research design that exploits sharp increases in prenatal Medicaid eligibility that occurred in some states. Our analyses are based on U.S. Vital St...