New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children's Outcomes? [0.03%]
老问题 新进展：金钱对儿童的发展重要吗？
Marianne E Page
Marianne E Page
Family income is a positive predictor of children's health, human capital, and later-life earnings, but determining the extent to which these associations reflect causal effects is challenging. A recent wave of natural and randomized experi...
Measuring Time Preferences [0.03%]
度量时间偏好
Jonathan Cohen,Keith Marzilli Ericson,David Laibson et al.
Jonathan Cohen et al.
We review research that measures time preferences-i.e., preferences over intertemporal tradeoffs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call "money earlier or later" (MEL) decisions and studies that use time-dated c...
Philip DeCicca,Donald Kenkel,Michael F Lovenheim
Philip DeCicca
Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world since the UK Royal College of Physicians' and the US Surgeon General's reports in the 1960s. Such regulation, which has intensified in the past two decade...
How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from U.S. Historical Data [0.03%]
自动化链接方法的效果如何？美国历史数据的启示
Martha Bailey,Connor Cole,Morgan Henderson et al.
Martha Bailey et al.
This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the U.S. and examines the performance of widely-used record linking algorithms and common variations in their assumptions. We use two high-quality, hand-linked datasets and o...
Pierre-Andre Chiappori,Maurizio Mazzocco
Pierre-Andre Chiappori
We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account for. Using this insight, we describe testable implications, iden...
Ran Abramitzky,Leah Boustan
Ran Abramitzky
The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. Th...
Annamaria Lusardi,Olivia S Mitchell
Annamaria Lusardi
This paper undertakes an assessment of a rapidly growing body of economic research on financial literacy. We start with an overview of theoretical research which casts financial knowledge as a form of investment in human capital. Endogenizi...
Dora Costa
Dora Costa
I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators, and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsiz...
Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy [0.03%]
在政策评估中建立结构评价方法与程序评价方法之间的桥梁
James J Heckman
James J Heckman
This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers a third way to do policy analysis that combines the best features of both approaches. We illustrate the value of this al...
W S Comanor
W S Comanor