Alvin E Roth
Alvin E Roth
Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must accomplish to enable different kinds of markets. Marketplaces can have v...
Escaping Malthus: Economic Growth and Fertility Change in the Developing World [0.03%]
逃离马尔萨斯的陷阱：经济发展与生育率变化之间的关系——发展中世界的视角
Shoumitro Chatterjee,Tom Vogl
Shoumitro Chatterjee
Following mid-twentieth century predictions of Malthusian catastrophe, fertility in the developing world more than halved, while living standards more than doubled. We analyze how fertility change related to economic growth during this epis...
Siwan Anderson
Siwan Anderson
More than one-half of all people living with HIV are women and 80 percent of all HIV-positive women in the world live in sub- Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formerly colonized countries significantly...
Petra Persson,Maya Rossin-Slater
Petra Persson
This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find that prenatal exposure to the death of a maternal relative increases take-up of ADHD medications during childhood and anti...
Naoki Aizawa,You Suk Kim
Naoki Aizawa
This paper studies the impact of advertising as a channel for risk selection in Medicare Advantage. We provide evidence that insurer advertising is responsive to the gains from risk selection. Then we develop and estimate an equilibrium mod...
Carlos Dobkin,Amy Finkelstein,Raymond Kluender et al.
Carlos Dobkin et al.
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adul...
The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security [0.03%]
基于社会保障的政策不确定性福利成本的经验证据
Erzo F P Luttmer,Andrew A Samwick
Erzo F P Luttmer
Policy uncertainty reduces individual welfare when individuals have limited opportunities to mitigate or insure against the resulting consumption fluctuations. We field an original survey to measure the degree of perceived policy uncertaint...
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion [0.03%]
移民限制的积极劳动力市场效应：来自墨西哥布拉西奥排除计划的经验证据
Michael A Clemens,Ethan G Lewis,Hannah M Postel
Michael A Clemens
An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of...
Daniel J Benjamin,Kristen B Cooper,Ori Heffetz et al.
Daniel J Benjamin et al.
How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors? [0.03%]
家庭收入如何影响儿童的人格特质和行为？
Randall Akee,William Copeland,E Jane Costello et al.
Randall Akee et al.
We examine the effects of a quasi-experimental unconditional household income transfer on child emotional and behavioral health and personality traits. Using longitudinal data, we find that there are large beneficial effects on children's e...