Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks [0.03%]
吓傻还是被吓死？关于疾病风险的宿命态度研究
Jason T Kerwin
Jason T Kerwin
This paper shows that responses to disease risks can be "fatalistic": higher risk beliefs can lead to more risk-taking rather than less. Intuitively, this can occur because high risk beliefs raise not only the chance of contracting the dise...
Laura Derksen,Jason T Kerwin,Natalia Ordaz Reynoso et al.
Laura Derksen et al.
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment tha...
THE LIMITATIONS OF ACTIVITY-BASED INSTRUCTION TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF SCHOOLING [0.03%]
基于活动的教学法对提高教学效率收效甚微吗？
Andreas de Barros,Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez,Paul Glewwe et al.
Andreas de Barros et al.
There is substantial emphasis on improving classroom practices, primarily through activity-based instruction, to increase the productivity of schooling. We study a large programme that seeks to promote mathematics learning in government pri...
NEONATAL DEATH IN INDIA: BIRTH ORDER IN A CONTEXT OF MATERNAL UNDERNUTRITION [0.03%]
印度的新生儿死亡率：在母亲营养不良情况下的出生顺序的影响
Diane Coffey,Dean Spears
Diane Coffey
We document a novel fact about neonatal death, or death in the first month of life. Globally, neonatal mortality is disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order on neonatal mortality that is unique to ...
MORTALITY RISK INFORMATION, SURVIVAL EXPECTATIONS AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS [0.03%]
关于死亡风险信息、生存预期和性行为的研究
Alberto Ciancio,Adeline Delavande,Hans-Peter Kohler et al.
Alberto Ciancio et al.
We investigate the impact of a randomised information intervention about population-level mortality on health investment and subjective health expectations. Our focus is on risky sex in a high-HIV-prevalence environment. Treated individuals...
Achyuta Adhvaryu,Prashant Bharadwaj,James Fenske et al.
Achyuta Adhvaryu et al.
Using two decades of data from 12 low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behavi...
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralisation on Publicly Provided Services and Labour Market [0.03%]
财政分权对公共服务供给与劳动市场的影响分析——来自中国的证据
Nicola Bianchi,Michela Giorcelli,Enrica Maria Martino
Nicola Bianchi
This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our ide...
Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania [0.03%]
管理实践与医疗质量：来自坦桑尼亚私立医疗行业的证据
Timothy Powell-Jackson,Jessica J C King,Christina Makungu et al.
Timothy Powell-Jackson et al.
We measure the adoption of management practices in over 220 private for-profit and non-profit health facilities in 64 districts across Tanzania and link these data to process quality-of-care metrics, assessed using undercover standardised p...
Janjala Chirakijja,Seema Jayachandran,Pinchuan Ong
Janjala Chirakijja
This paper examines how the price of home heating affects mortality in the United States. Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. Our empi...
David Autor,David Figlio,Krzysztof Karbownik et al.
David Autor et al.
We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status par...