Stability of Experimental and Survey Measures of Risk, Time, and Social Preferences: A Review and Some New Results [0.03%]
实验和调查风险、时间和社会偏好的衡量标准的稳定性：回顾及新的研究结果
Yating Chuang,Laura Schechter
Yating Chuang
Underlying preferences are often considered to be persistent, and are important inputs into economic models. We first conduct an extensive review of the disparate literature studying the stability of preferences measured in experiments. The...
Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development [0.03%]
化肥培育经济增长及其对经济发展的影响
John W McArthur,Gordon C McCord
John W McArthur
This paper estimates the role of agronomic inputs in cereal yield improvements and the consequences for countries' processes of structural change. The results suggest a clear role for fertilizer, modern seeds and water in boosting yields. W...
Achyuta Adhvaryu,Anant Nyshadham
Achyuta Adhvaryu
We study the role of household enterprise as a coping mechanism after health shocks. Using variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to predict recovery from acute illness in Tanzania, we show that individuals wi...
J Vernon Henderson,Adam Storeygard,Uwe Deichmann
J Vernon Henderson
This paper documents strong but differentiated links between climate and urbanization in large panels of districts and cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, which has dried substantially in the past fifty years. The key dimension of heterogeneity i...
Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor? [0.03%]
扶贫progressive税制可能会伤及扶貧对象吗？
Sean Higgins,Nora Lustig
Sean Higgins
To analyze anti-poverty policies in tandem with the taxes used to pay for them, comparisons of poverty before and after taxes and transfers are often used. We show that these comparisons, as well as measures of horizontal equity and progres...
Developing Science: Scientific Performance and Brain Drains in the Developing World [0.03%]
发展中的科学：发展中国家的科研表现与人才外流问题
Bruce A Weinberg
Bruce A Weinberg
Establishing a strong scientific community is important as countries develop, which requires both producing and retaining of important scientists. We show that developing countries produce a sizeable number of important scientists, but that...
Nicholas L Wilson,Wentao Xiong,Christine L Mattson
Nicholas L Wilson
Risk compensation has been called the "Achilles' heel" of HIV prevention policies (Cassell et al 2006). This paper examines the behavioral response to male circumcision, a major HIV prevention policy currently being implemented throughout m...
Janet Currie,Wanchuan Lin,Juanjuan Meng
Janet Currie
China has high rates of antibiotic abuse and antibiotic resistance but the causes are still a matter for debate. Strong physician financial incentives to prescribe are likely to be an important cause. However, patient demand (or physician b...
Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi [0.03%]
禁止非正规医疗提供者行医能救命吗？马拉维的证据
Susan Godlonton,Edward N Okeke
Susan Godlonton
Informal health providers ranging from drug vendors to traditional healers account for a large fraction of health care provision in developing countries. They are, however, largely unlicensed and unregulated leading to concern that they pro...
Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration [0.03%]
穷人一直较少迁移吗？大规模移民时代的继承实践表明了什么？
Ran Abramitzky,Leah Platt Boustan,Katherine Eriksson
Ran Abramitzky
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigra...