Social Networks and Externalities from Gift Exchange: Evidence from A Field Experiment [0.03%]
基于礼物交换的外部性：一项田野实验证据
Janet Currie,Wanchuan Lin,Juanjuan Meng
Janet Currie
This paper asks whether gift exchange generates externalities for people outside of the bilateral relationship between the gift giver and recipient, and whether the nature of this relationship is affected by social networks. We examine this...
Yan Shen,Yang Yao
Yan Shen
Using village and household survey data collected from 48 villages of eight Chinese provinces for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies how the introduction of village elections affects income distribution at the village level. We estima...
Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program [0.03%]
营养与认知成就：关于学校早餐计划的评估研究
David E Frisvold
David E Frisvold
This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who atten...
Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle: Evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937 [0.03%]
选举权与政治预算周期：来自1902至1937年伦敦大都会自治市的证据
Toke S Aidt,Graham Mooney
Toke S Aidt
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting...
Ryan D Edwards
Ryan D Edwards
Military spending, fatalities, and the destruction of capital, all of which are immediately felt and are often large, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. But the costs of war borne by combatants and their ...
John Beshears,James J Choi,David Laibson et al.
John Beshears et al.
We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or noth...
John Beshears,James J Choi,David Laibson et al.
John Beshears et al.
Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative pre...
The Effect of Entry Regulation in the Health Care Sector: the Case of Home Health [0.03%]
医疗卫生部门准入规制的影响——居家医护个案分析
Daniel Polsky,Guy David,Jianing Yang et al.
Daniel Polsky et al.
The consequences of government regulation in the post-acute care sector are not well understood. We examine the effect of entry regulation on quality of care in home health care by analyzing the universe of hospital discharges during 2006 f...
Does Raising the Early Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers? [0.03%]
提高早期退休年龄的规定会增加老年人就业吗？
Stefan Staubli,Josef Zweimüller
Stefan Staubli
Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. We find that raising the ERA increased employment by 9.75 percentage points among affected men and by 11 percentag...
Anna Aizer,Pedro Dal Bó
Anna Aizer
Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are the victims of domestic violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the c...