Robert L Scharff,W Kip Viscusi
Robert L Scharff
Individuals with higher personal rates of time preference will be more likely to smoke. Although previous studies have found no evidence of a relationship between smoking and rates of time preference, analysis of implicit rates of time pref...
Charles Courtemanche
Charles Courtemanche
I find evidence of a negative association between gasoline prices and body weight using a fixed effects model with several robustness checks. I also show that increases in gas prices are associated with additional walking and a reduction in...
Learning about new products: an empirical study of physicians' behavior [0.03%]
关于新产品的学习过程——一项关于医师行为的实证研究
Maria Marta Ferreyra,Grigory Kosenok
Maria Marta Ferreyra
We develop and estimate a model of market demand for a new pharmaceutical, whose quality is learned through prescriptions by forward-looking physicians. We use a panel of antiulcer prescriptions from Italian physicians between 1990 and 1992...
Torberg Falch,Sofia Sandgren Massih
Torberg Falch
This paper analyzes whether schooling increases intelligence measured by intelligence quotient (IQ). We use a longitudinal dataset where the individuals have conducted IQ tests both at ages 10 and 20. We estimate the effect of schooling on ...
In high school and pregnant: the importance of educational and fertility expectations for subsequent outcomes [0.03%]
高中怀孕：教育和生育预期对日后影响的重要性
Olga Yakusheva
Olga Yakusheva
This study uses the High School and Beyond data (1980–1992) to examine the importance of educational and fertility expectations in explaining the achievement gap of adolescent mothers for over 5,500 young women from different socioeconomic...
Jorge Soares
Jorge Soares
This article presents a new rationale for imposing restrictions on child labor. In a standard overlapping generation model where parental altruism results in transfers that children allocate to consumption and education, the Nash-Cournot eq...
James J Heckman
James J Heckman
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the...
Marriage, divorce, and legal change: new evidence from England and Wales [0.03%]
婚姻、离婚与法律变革：英格兰和威尔士的新证据
J M Binner,A W Dnes
J M Binner
Marshall H Medoff
Marshall H Medoff
J H Goddeeris
J H Goddeeris