Jason M Fletcher,Barbara L Wolfe
Jason M Fletcher
This paper uses national longitudinal data and several new empirical strategies to examine the consequences of teenage fatherhood. The key contribution is to compare economic outcomes of young fathers to young men whose partners experienced...
Peer evaluations and team performance: when friends do worse than strangers [0.03%]
同伴评价与团队绩效：为什么熟人不如陌生人？
Brice Corgnet
Brice Corgnet
We use peer assessments as a tool to allocate joint profits in a real-effort team experiment. We find that using this incentive mechanism reduces team performance. More specifically, we show that teams composed of acquaintances rather than ...
Laura Blow,Ian Walker,Yu Zhu
Laura Blow
Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children. For example, in the United States the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all children, cos...
Delia Furtado
Delia Furtado
Common explanations for the generally negative relationship between education and ethnic endogamy include (1) education makes immigrants and their children better able to adapt to native culture thereby eliminating the need for a same-ethni...
The impact of immigration on child health: experimental evidence from a migration lottery program [0.03%]
移民对儿童健康的影响：来自一项移民抽签计划的实证证据
Steven Stillman,John Gibson,David McKenzie
Steven Stillman
This paper uses a unique survey designed by the authors to compare migrant children who enter New Zealand through a random ballot with children in the home country of Tonga whose families were unsuccessful participants in the same ballots. ...
Should we get married? The effect of parents' marriage on out-of-wedlock children [0.03%]
我们应该结婚吗？父母的婚姻对非婚生子女的影响
Shirley H Liu,Frank Heiland
Shirley H Liu
Using a representative sample of children all born to unwed parents drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and a potential outcome approach to account for self-selection into marriage, we investigate whether marriage afte...
Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira,Samuel Pessôa,Marcelo Rodrigues dos Santos
Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira
This paper studies the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita income and education. It explores two channels on how HIV/AIDS affects income that have not been sufficiently stressed by previous literature: the reduction of the incentives to stay i...
Possibility of dying as a unified explanation of why we discount the future, get weaker with age, and display risk-aversion [0.03%]
死亡的可能作为对为何我们折现未来、衰老时力量减弱以及表现出风险厌恶的一统解释
Bhagwan Chowdhry
Bhagwan Chowdhry
I formulate a simple and parsimonious evolutionary model that shows that because most species face a possibility of dying because of external factors, called extrinsic mortality in the biology literature, it can simultaneously explain (a) w...
Teresa D Harrison
Teresa D Harrison
In this paper, we compare potential and realized cost savings from hospital mergers. Our approach isolates changes in realized cost savings due to different output mixes from systematic changes due to time and also provides a measure of the...
Travis J Lybbert,Christopher B Barrett
Travis J Lybbert
The growing literature on poverty traps emphasizes the links between multiple equilibria and risk avoidance. However, multiple equilibria may also foster risk-taking behavior by some poor people. We illustrate this idea with a simple analyt...