Charles Courtemanche,David Frisvold,David Jimenez-Gomez et al.
Charles Courtemanche et al.
This paper investigates whether and why laws requiring chain restaurants to post calories on menus and menu boards work. We develop a model of calories consumed that highlights multiple potential channels through which these laws influence ...
Johanna Catherine Maclean,Stefan Pichler,Nicolas R Ziebarth
Johanna Catherine Maclean
Using the National Compensation Survey from 2009 to 2022 and difference-in-differences methods, we find that state-level sick pay mandates are effective in broadening access to paid sick leave for U.S. workers. Increases in sick pay coverag...
Joan Hamory,Marieke Kleemans,Nicholas Y Li et al.
Joan Hamory et al.
Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national account...
Keith M Ericson
Keith M Ericson
Do individuals have unbiased beliefs, or are they over- or underconfident? Overconfident individuals may fail to prepare optimally for the future, and economists who infer preferences from behavior under the assumption of unbiased beliefs w...
Orazio Attanasio,Helen Baker-Henningham,Raquel Bernal et al.
Orazio Attanasio et al.
Early childhood development is becoming the focus of policy worldwide. However, the evidence on the effectiveness of scalable models is scant, particularly when it comes to infants in developing countries. In this paper, we describe and eva...
Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment? [0.03%]
简单的心理干预能增加预防性健康投资吗？
Anett John,Kate Orkin
Anett John
Behavioral constraints may explain part of the low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized c...
Precise or Imprecise Probabilities? Evidence from Survey Response Related to Late-Onset Dementia [0.03%]
精确概率还是不确切概率？与晚期发病的痴呆症相关的调查回复证据
Pamela Giustinelli,Charles F Manski,Francesca Molinari
Pamela Giustinelli
We elicit numerical expectations for late-onset dementia and long-term-care (LTC) outcomes in the US Health and Retirement Study. We provide the first empirical evidence on dementia-risk perceptions among dementia-free older Americans and e...
Raquel Fonseca,Pierre-Carl Michaud,Titus Galama et al.
Raquel Fonseca et al.
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. Accounting for ...
As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Mortality [0.03%]
风中的故事：长期暴露在空气污染中对人类死亡率的影响
Michael L Anderson
Michael L Anderson
There is strong evidence that short-run fluctuations in air pollution negatively impact infant health and contemporaneous adult health, but there is less evidence on the causal link between long-term exposure to air pollution and increased ...
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study [0.03%]
基因、教育与劳动市场结果：来自健康和退休跟踪调查的证据
Nicholas W Papageorge,Kevin Thom
Nicholas W Papageorge
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a linear index-known as a polygenic score-are associated with human capital accumulation ...