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...
The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods [0.03%]
关于低收入住房税收信用计划对社区影响的研究报告摘要
Nathaniel Baum-Snow,Justin Marion
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
This paper evaluates the impacts of new housing developments funded with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest federal project based housing program in the U.S., on the neighborhoods in which they are built. A discontinuity...
WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics [0.03%]
邻里胜过远方：门诊部地理可达性对补充营养援助计划的影响评估
Maya Rossin-Slater
Maya Rossin-Slater
A large body of evidence indicates that conditions in-utero and health at birth matter for individuals' long-run outcomes, suggesting potential value in programs aimed at pregnant women and young children. This paper uses a novel identifica...
Steven Nyce,Sylvester J Schieber,John B Shoven et al.
Steven Nyce et al.
The strong link between health insurance and employment in the United States may cause workers to delay retirement until they become eligible for Medicare at age 65. However, some employers extend health insurance benefits to their retirees...
Darius Lakdawalla,Neeraj Sood
Darius Lakdawalla
Monopolies appear throughout health care. We show that health insurance operates like a conventional two-part pricing contract that allows monopolists to extract profits without inefficiently constraining quantity. When insurers are free to...