Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South [0.03%]
疾病与发展：来自美国南部钩虫根除的证据
Hoyt Bleakley
Hoyt Bleakley
This study evaluates the economic consequences of the successful eradication of hookworm disease from the American South. The hookworm-eradication campaign (c. 1910) began soon after (i) the discovery that a variety of health problems among...
Tom S Vogl
Tom S Vogl
Using data from South Asia, this article examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marr...
Portage and Path Dependence [0.03%]
港口与路径依赖性
Hoyt Bleakley,Jeffrey Lin
Hoyt Bleakley
We examine portage sites in the U.S. South, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, including those on the fall line, a geomorphological feature in the southeastern U.S. marking the final rapids on rivers before the ocean. Historically, waterborne trans...
Amy Finkelstein,Sarah Taubman,Bill Wright et al.
Amy Finkelstein et al.
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides an opportunity to gauge the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the ...
John S Felkner,Robert M Townsend
John S Felkner
A nation's economic geography can have an enormous impact on its development. In Thailand, we show that a high concentration of enterprise in an area predicts high subsequent growth in and around that area. We also find spatially contiguous...
Ofer Malamud,Cristian Pop-Eleches
Ofer Malamud
This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of home computers on child and adolescent outcomes by exploiting a voucher program in Romania. Our main results indicate that home computers have both positive and neg...
Comparison friction: experimental evidence from medicare drug plans [0.03%]
基于 Medicare 药品计划的实证比较摩擦研究
Jeffrey R Kling,Sendhil Mullainathan,Eldar Shafir et al.
Jeffrey R Kling et al.
Consumers need information to compare alternatives for markets to function efficiently. Recognizing this, public policies often pair competition with easy access to comparative information. The implicit assumption is that comparison frictio...
Stefano DellaVigna,John A List,Ulrike Malmendier
Stefano DellaVigna
Every year, 90% of Americans give money to charities. Is such generosity necessarily welfare enhancing for the giver? We present a theoretical framework that distinguishes two types of motivation: individuals like to give, for example, due ...
The role of hospital heterogeneity in measuring marginal returns to medical care: a reply to Barreca, Guldi, Lindo, and Waddell [0.03%]
关于医疗保健边际收益测量中医院异质性作用的评论答复巴雷卡、吉利、林多和瓦德尔教授
Douglas Almond,Joseph J Doyle Jr,Amanda E Kowalski et al.
Douglas Almond et al.
In Almond et al. (2010), we describe how marginal returns to medical care can be estimated by comparing patients on either side of diagnostic thresholds. Our application examines at-risk newborns near the very low birth weight threshold at ...
Saving babies? Revisiting the effect of very low birth weight classification [0.03%]
重新审视极低出生体重的界定标准对其分类的影响
Alan I Barreca,Melanie Guldi,Jason M Lindo et al.
Alan I Barreca et al.
We reconsider the effect of very low birth weight classification on infant mortality. We demonstrate that the estimates are highly sensitive to the exclusion of observations in the immediate vicinity of the 1,500-g threshold, weakening the ...