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...
Cutting the costs of attrition: Results from the Indonesia Family Life Survey [0.03%]
基于印尼家庭生活调查的劳动力流失成本估计研究
Duncan Thomas,Firman Witoelar,Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.
Duncan Thomas et al.
Don't tell on me: Experimental evidence of asymmetric information in transnational households [0.03%]
勿告于我：跨境家庭信息不对称的实验证据
Kate Ambler
Kate Ambler
Although most theoretical models of household decision making assume perfect information, empirical studies suggest that information asymmetries can have large impacts on resource allocation. I demonstrate the importance of these asymmetrie...
Cally Ardington,Till Bärnighausen,Anne Case et al.
Cally Ardington et al.
We quantify the impact of adult deaths on household economic wellbeing, using a large longitudinal dataset spanning more than a decade. Verbal autopsies allow us to distinguish AIDS mortality from that due to other causes. The timing of the...
Sheetal Sekhri,Adam Storeygard
Sheetal Sekhri
We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002-2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported dowry deaths by 7.8 percent...
Endogenous coresidence and program incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension [0.03%]
内生核心家庭居住与社会福利项目效益：南非老年基本生活保障金之效用分析
Amar Hamoudi,Duncan Thomas
Amar Hamoudi
We investigate whether living arrangements respond to an arguably exogenous shift in the distribution of power in family economic decision-making. In the early 1990s, the South African Old Age Pension was expanded to cover most black South ...
Corruption and Local Democratization in Indonesia: The Role of Islamic Parties [0.03%]
印尼的腐败与地方民主化：伊斯兰政党的作用
J Vernon Henderson,Ari Kuncoro
J Vernon Henderson
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. This paper examines whether corruption is affected by a change in institutions introducing local democratization and by party compositio...
Rebecca L Thornton
Rebecca L Thornton
This paper examines the effects of learning HIV status on economic behavior among rural Malawians. According to economic life-cycle models, if learning HIV results is informative about additional years of life, being diagnosed HIV-positive ...