THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA [0.03%]
无条件现金转交给穷人产生的短期影响：来自肯尼亚的实验证据
Johannes Haushofer,Jeremy Shapiro
Johannes Haushofer
We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural Kenya to unconditional cash transfers from the NGO GiveDirectly. The transfers differ from other programs in that they are explicitly unconditional, larg...
THE PRICE AIN'T RIGHT? HOSPITAL PRICES AND HEALTH SPENDING ON THE PRIVATELY INSURED [0.03%]
价格不公？关于私立医院收费及在 privately insured 上的健康支出的问题
Zack Cooper,Stuart V Craig,Martin Gaynor et al.
Zack Cooper et al.
We use insurance claims data covering 28% of individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States to study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-hospital contracts, ...
Patrick Kline,Neviana Petkova,Heidi Williams et al.
Patrick Kline et al.
This article analyzes how patent-induced shocks to labor productivity propagate into worker compensation using a new linkage of U.S. patent applications to U.S. business and worker tax records. We infer the causal effects of patent allowanc...
THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: NATURE, HISTORY, AND THE ROLE OF TRADE [0.03%]
世界经济活动分布的决定因素：自然、历史及贸易的作用
Vernon Henderson,Tim Squires,Adam Storeygard et al.
Vernon Henderson et al.
We explore the role of natural characteristics in determining the worldwide spatial distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, observed across 240,000 grid cells. A parsimonious set of 24 physical geography attributes...
What do Workplace Wellness Programs do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study [0.03%]
健康促进计划都有哪些举措？——来自伊利诺伊州工作场所健康调查的证据
Damon Jones,David Molitor,Julian Reif
Damon Jones
Workplace wellness programs cover over 50 million U.S. workers and are intended to reduce medical spending, increase productivity, and improve well-being. Yet limited evidence exists to support these claims. We designed and implemented a co...
The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect [0.03%]
我们死得越多，卖得越多？国内市场需求效应的简单测试
Arnaud Costinot,Dave Donaldson,Margaret Kyle et al.
Arnaud Costinot et al.
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this artic...
Marcella Alsan,Marianne Wanamaker
Marcella Alsan
JEL Codes: I14, O15 For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study's methods have become...
PREFERENCE FOR THE WORKPLACE, INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL, AND GENDER [0.03%]
劳动力市场偏好的差异、人力资本投资与性别差距
Matthew Wiswall,Basit Zafar
Matthew Wiswall
We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes from a sample of high-ability undergraduates attending a highly selective university. We estimate that women on average have a higher willingness to p...
Isaac Sorkin
Isaac Sorkin
This article estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to-employer transitions in U.S. administrative data. The article uses a tool from numerical linear algebra to measure the central tendency of worker...
Jon Kleinberg,Himabindu Lakkaraju,Jure Leskovec et al.
Jon Kleinberg et al.
Can machine learning improve human decision making? Bail decisions provide a good test case. Millions of times each year, judges make jail-or-release decisions that hinge on a prediction of what a defendant would do if released. The concret...