Charitable giving role-modeling: parent transmission frequency and adolescent reception [0.03%]
慈善行为的示范作用——父母捐赠频率与子女接受度
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm,Una Osili,Xiao Han
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm
Experiments indicate that adult role-modeling of giving has a causal effect on giving done by children, but a previous investigation using data from a natural setting suggests zero causal effect of parent role-modeling on their adolescents'...
Understanding context effects for a measure of life evaluation: how responses matter [0.03%]
理解生活评估衡量标准的影响作用：回应的重要性
Angus Deaton,Arthur A Stone
Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton
The Great Recession was associated with large changes in income, wealth, and unemployment, changes that affected many lives. Since January 2008, the Gallup Organization has been collecting daily data on 1,000 Americans each day, with a rang...
The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households 1904-37 [0.03%]
贫困的终结：基于1904年至1937年英国城市劳动家庭的证据
Ian Gazeley,Andrew Newell
Ian Gazeley
We estimate the reduction, almost to elimination, of absolute poverty among working households in urban Britain between 1904 and 1937. We exploit two recently-digitized data sets. The paper presents a statistical generalization, to working ...
Simone D&#x;Alessandro
Simone D&#x;Alessandro
This paper shows that under weather variability the transformation from a rural to an incomplete market economy can increase the vulnerability of peasants to famine. This can occur even if improvements in technology have raised agricultural...
Power to the people: working-class demand for household power in 1930s Britain [0.03%]
民惟邦本：二十世纪三十年代英国的大众电力诉求研究
Peter Scott,James Walker
Peter Scott
The 1930s witnessed an intense struggle between gas and electricity suppliers for the working class market, where the incumbent utility—gas—was also a reasonably efficient (and cheaper) General Purpose Technology for most domestic uses. L...
Martin Gassebner,Michael J Lamla,Jan-Egbert Sturm
Martin Gassebner
The recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution. We apply E...
Michael Grimm
Michael Grimm
This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The empirical part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries ov...