Christine L Exley,Judd B Kessler
Christine L Exley
A rich literature finds that individuals avoid information and suggests that avoidance is driven by image concerns. This paper provides the first direct test of whether individuals avoid information because of image concerns. We build on a ...
Stelios Michalopoulos,Alireza Naghavi,Giovanni Prarolo
Stelios Michalopoulos
In this study we explore the historical determinants of contemporary Muslim representation. Motivated by a plethora of case studies and historical accounts among Islamicists stressing the role of trade for the adoption of Islam, we construc...
Health and Hunger: Disease, Energy Needs, and the Indian Calorie Consumption Puzzle [0.03%]
健康与饥饿：疾病、能量需求与印度的卡路里消费之谜
Josephine Duh,Dean Spears
Josephine Duh
India's experience presents a puzzle at odds with a basic fact of household economics: amidst unprecedented economic growth, average per capita daily calorie consumption has declined in recent decades. Does an improving disease environment ...
Titus J Galama,Hans van Kippersluis
Titus J Galama
Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the SES-health gradient, we present a life-cycle model that incorporates several additional behaviours that potentially explain (jointly) a large part o...
Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait [0.03%]
镰状细胞基因与疟疾对早期非洲发展的证据关系研究
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin,David N Weil
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease, we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the pe...
Diane Coffey,Michael Geruso,Dean Spears
Diane Coffey
Anaemia impairs physical and cognitive development in children and reduces human capital accumulation. The prior economics literature has focused on the role of inadequate nutrition in causing anaemia. This article is the first to show that...
LOCUS OF CONTROL AND ITS INTERGENERATIONAL IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD SKILL FORMATION [0.03%]
控制点与早期儿童技能形成中的代际传递
Warn N Lekfuangfu,Nattavudh Powdthavee,Nele Warrinnier et al.
Warn N Lekfuangfu et al.
This article builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on their children's early skill formation. We propose that this subjective belief is determi...
Market versus Residence Principle: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Financial Transaction Tax [0.03%]
金融市场交易税的市场效应与居住效应：实验证据
Jürgen Huber,Michael Kirchler,Daniel Kleinlercher et al.
Jürgen Huber et al.
The effects of a financial transaction tax (FTT) are scientifically disputed, as seemingly small details of its implementation may matter a lot. In this article, we provide experimental evidence on the different effects of an FTT, depending...
International Trends in Technological Progress: Evidence from Patent Citations, 1980-2011 [0.03%]
1980至2011年的国际技术进步趋势：来自专利引用的证据
Soonwoo Kwon,Jihong Lee,Sokbae Lee
Soonwoo Kwon
We analyse cross-country trends in several aspects of technological progress during 1980-2011 by examining the US patent citations data. Our estimation results on patent quality and citation lags relative to the US reveal the following. The...
FOR LOVE OR REWARD? CHARACTERISING PREFERENCES FOR GIVING TO PARENTS IN AN EXPERIMENTAL SETTING [0.03%]
实验分析版：“是为了爱还是回报？——剖析给父母慷慨解囊的动机来源
Maria Porter,Abi Adams
Maria Porter
Understanding the motivations behind intergenerational transfers is an important and active research area in economics. The existence and responsiveness of familial transfers have consequences for the design of intra and intergenerational r...