INCENTIVES TO IDENTIFY: RACIAL IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION [0.03%]
affirmative action时代的种族认同感——激励措施的作用与影响
Francisca Antman,Brian Duncan
Francisca Antman
We link data on racial self-identification with changes in state-level affirmative action policies to ask whether racial self-identification responds to economic incentives. We find that after a state bans affirmative action, multiracial in...
Quamrul Ashraf,Stelios Michalopoulos
Quamrul Ashraf
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society's history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of f...
Jonathan Skinner,Douglas Staiger
Jonathan Skinner
We draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to explain empirical patterns of survival gains in heart attacks. Using Medicare data for 2.8 million patients during 1986-2004, we find that hospitals rapidly adopting cost-effe...
Aviva Aron-Dine,Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein et al.
Aviva Aron-Dine et al.
Using data from employer-provided health insurance and Medicare Part D, we investigate whether healthcare utilization responds to the dynamic incentives created by the nonlinear nature of health insurance contracts. We exploit the fact that...
Are Children "Normal"? [0.03%]
儿童都是正常的吗？
Dan A Black,Natalia Kolesnikova,Seth G Sanders et al.
Dan A Black et al.
We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive l...
Christopher Carpenter,Carlos Dobkin
Christopher Carpenter
We use variation from the minimum legal drinking age to estimate the causal effect of access to alcohol on crime. Using a census of arrests in California and a regression discontinuity design, we find that individuals just over age 21 are 5...
Insurers' Negotiating Leverage and the External Effects of Medicare Part D [0.03%]
保险公司的谈判杠杆作用和《2003年 Medicare 药物法案》的外溢效应
Darius Lakdawalla,Wesley Yin
Darius Lakdawalla
By influencing the size and bargaining power of private insurers, public subsidization of private health insurance may project effects beyond the subsidized population. We test for such spillovers by analyzing how increases in insurer size ...
Inequality and City Size [0.03%]
不平等与城市规模
Nathaniel Baum-Snow,Ronni Pavan
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
Between 1979 and 2007 a strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size has developed. This paper investigates the links between this emergent city size inequality premium and the contemporaneous nationwide incr...
Iris Kesternich,Bettina Siflinger,James P Smith et al.
Iris Kesternich et al.
We investigate long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status and health of older individuals in Europe. We analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009. SHARELIFE provides deta...
Can Self-Control Explain Avoiding Free Money? Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans [0.03%]
自我控制能解释为什么人们会放弃无息助学贷款的免费资金吗？
Brian C Cadena,Benjamin J Keys
Brian C Cadena
This paper uses insights from behavioral economics to explain a particularly surprising borrowing phenomenon: One in six undergraduate students offered interest-free loans turn them down. Models of impulse control predict that students may ...