Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India [0.03%]
解雇成本与灵活性：来自印度企业就业响应的证据
Achyuta Adhvaryu,A V Chari,Siddharth Sharma
Achyuta Adhvaryu
A key prediction of dynamic labor demand models is that firing restrictions attenuate firms' employment responses to economic fluctuations. We provide the first direct test of this prediction using data from India. We exploit the fact that ...
Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility, and Growth [0.03%]
慢性病负担及教育、生育和经济增长的相互作用关系
Hoyt Bleakley,Fabian Lange
Hoyt Bleakley
This study considers the eradication of hookworm disease from the American South as a test of the quantity-quality (Q-Q) framework of fertility. Eradication was principally a shock to the price of quality because of three factors: hookworm ...
Kasey S Buckles,Daniel M Hungerman
Kasey S Buckles
Season of birth is associated with later outcomes; what drives this association remains unclear. We consider a new explanation: variation in maternal characteristics. We document large changes in maternal characteristics for births througho...
James P Smith
James P Smith
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that...
Tibor Besedeš,Cary Deck,Sudipta Sarangi et al.
Tibor Besedeš et al.
Using controlled experiments, we examine how individuals make choices when faced with multiple options. Choice tasks are designed to mimic the selection of health insurance, prescription drug, or retirement savings plans. In our experiment,...
Robert T Jensen,Nolan H Miller
Robert T Jensen
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or controls to improve nutrition. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towar...
The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation: Oral Contraception's Effects on Fertility, Abortion, and Maternal & Child Characteristics [0.03%]
下一代的避孕药力：口服避孕药对生育、堕胎及母子体质特征的影响
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat,Daniel M Hungerman
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
This paper considers how oral contraception's diffusion to young unmarried women affected the number and parental characteristics of children born to these women. In the short-term, pill access caused declines in fertility and increases in ...
James J Choi,David Laibson,Brigitte C Madrian
James J Choi
We identify employees at seven companies whose 401(k) investment choices are dominated because they are contributing less than the employer matching contribution threshold despite being vested in their match and being able to make penalty-f...
James J Heckman,Paul A Lafontaine
James J Heckman
This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels and trends in U.S. high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true rate is substantially lower than widely used measures; (b) it peaked ...
David C Grabowski,Jonathan Gruber,Joseph J Angelelli
David C Grabowski
A long-standing assumption among economists is that nursing home quality is common across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a shared facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique ...