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 ...
Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like Ceos? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China [0.03%]
中国学校管理人员激励与资源配置的替代效应分析：官僚可以像CEO一样被高薪聘请吗？
Renfu Luo,Grant Miller,Scott Rozelle et al.
Renfu Luo et al.
Unlike performance incentives for private sector managers, little is known about performance incentives for managers in public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school...
The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States [0.03%]
微量营养素缺乏的认知效应：来自美国食盐加碘政策的证据
James Feyrer,Dimitra Politi,David N Weil
James Feyrer
Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation in the world today. The condition, which was common in the developed world until the introduction of iodized salt in the 1920s, is connected to low iodine levels in th...
Daniel J Benjamin,Sebastian A Brown,Jesse M Shapiro
Daniel J Benjamin
In this paper, we ask whether variation in preference anomalies is related to variation in cognitive ability. Evidence from a new laboratory study of Chilean high-school students with similar schooling backgrounds shows that small-stakes ri...
Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein
Liran Einav
We describe research on the impact of health insurance on healthcare spending ("moral hazard"), and use this context to illustrate the value of and important complementarities between different empirical approaches. One common approach is t...
Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences? [0.03%]
亲社会行为中的同伴效应：社会规范还是社会偏好？
Simon Gächter,Daniele Nosenzo,Martin Sefton
Simon Gächter
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our ...
Daniel J Benjamin,Matthew Rabin,Collin Raymond
Daniel J Benjamin
People believe that, even in very large samples, proportions of binary signals might depart significantly from the population mean. We model this "non-belief in the Law of Large Numbers" by assuming that a person believes that proportions i...
GROUP INEQUALITY [0.03%]
群体不平等
Samuel Bowles,Glenn C Loury,Rajiv Sethi
Samuel Bowles
We explore the combined effect of segregation in social networks, peer effects, and the relative size of a historically disadvantaged group on the incentives to invest in market-rewarded skills and the dynamics of inequality between social ...
Jan Eeckhout,Kaivan Munshi
Jan Eeckhout
This paper analyzes an informal financial institution that brings heterogeneous agents together in groups. We analyze decentralized matching into these groups, and the equilibrium composition of participants that consequently arises. We fin...
Flavio Cunha,James J Heckman
Flavio Cunha
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. Inequalities in family e...