Introduction to The Distribution of Earnings and of Individual Output, by A.D. Roy [0.03%]
A.D.罗伊的《工资和劳动生产率分配情况简介》序言
James J Heckman,Michael Sattinger
James J Heckman
This paper summarizes the lasting contribution of Roy's (1950) fundamental paper.
Elizabeth Frankenberg,Thomas Gillespie,Samuel Preston et al.
Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.
Over 130,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR), a population-representative survey collected in Aceh and North Sumatr...
Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence from the English NHS Patient Choice Reforms [0.03%]
医院竞争能拯救生命吗？来自英格兰全民免费医疗服务患者选择改革的证据
Zack Cooper,Stephen Gibbons,Simon Jones et al.
Zack Cooper et al.
Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital q...
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder,George L Wehby,Sarah Lewis et al.
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder et al.
We examine the effect of alcohol exposure in utero on child academic achievement. As well as studying the effect of any alcohol exposure, we investigate the effect of the dose, pattern, and duration of exposure. We use a genetic variant in ...
WHAT PREDICTS A SUCCESSFUL LIFE? A LIFE-COURSE MODEL OF WELL-BEING [0.03%]
什么决定一个人生的成功？一个关于幸福的生命周期模型
Richard Layard,Andrew E Clark,Francesca Cornaglia et al.
Richard Layard et al.
Policy-makers who care about well-being need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the Britis...
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom [0.03%]
teenage childbearing的后果：当流产使自然流产非随机化时的一致估计值
Adam Ashcraft,Iván Fernández-Val,Kevin Lang
Adam Ashcraft
Miscarriage, even if biologically random, is not socially random. Willingness to abort reduces miscarriage risk. Because abortions are favorably selected among pregnant teens, those miscarrying are less favorably selected than those giving ...
CAPITAL FLOWS, CONSUMPTION BOOMS AND ASSET BUBBLES: A BEHAVIOURAL ALTERNATIVE TO THE SAVINGS GLUT HYPOTHESIS [0.03%]
资本流动、消费增长和资产泡沫：对储蓄 glut 假说的基于行为的替代解释
David Laibson,Johanna Mollerstrom
David Laibson
Bernanke (2005) hypothesized that a "global savings glut" was causing large trade imbalances. However, we show that the global savings rates did not show a robust upward trend during the relevant period. Moreover, if there had been a global...
The Effect of Education on Old Age Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design [0.03%]
教育对老年人认知能力的影响：来自回归离散设计的证据
James Banks,Fabrizio Mazzonna
James Banks
In this paper we exploit the 1947 change to the minimum school-leaving age in England from 14 to 15, to evaluate the causal effect of a year of education on cognitive abilities at older ages. We use a regression discontinuity design analysi...
The Long Reach of Childhood Health and Circumstance: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study [0.03%]
童年健康与境遇的长期影响——来自威斯敏斯特II研究的证据
Anne Case,Christina Paxson
Anne Case
We use data from the Whitehall II Study to examine the joint evolution of health status and economic status over the life course. We study the links between health and socioeconomic status in childhood and health and employment status at ol...
James Banks,Cormac O&#x;Dea,Zoë Oldfield
James Banks
This paper examines the extent to which cognitive abilities relate to differences in trajectories for key economic outcomes as individuals move towards and through their retirement. We look at whether differences in baseline numeracy (measu...