Andrew E Clark,Conchita D&#x;Ambrosio,Simone Ghislandi
Andrew E Clark
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show, first, that life satisfac...
Emma Aguila,Orazio Attanasio,Costas Meghir
Emma Aguila
Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement, implying that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon is called the retirement consumption puzzle. We ...
CAUSAL EFFECTS OF HEALTH SHOCKS ON CONSUMPTION AND DEBT: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM BUS ACCIDENT INJURIES [0.03%]
健康受损对消费和债务的影响：公交车事故受伤的准实验证据
Manoj Mohanan
Manoj Mohanan
Endogeneity between health and wealth presents a challenge for estimating causal effects of health shocks. Using a quasi-experimental design, comprising exogenous shocks sustained as bus accident injuries in India, with controls drawn from ...
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 ...