Hoyt Bleakley
Hoyt Bleakley
How much does disease depress development in human capital and income around the world? I discuss a range of micro evidence, which finds that health is both human capital itself and an input to producing other forms of human capital. I use ...
Justine S Hastings,Brigitte C Madrian,William L Skimmyhorn
Justine S Hastings
In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes. We consider how financial literacy is measured in the current literature, and examine how well the existing literature add...
Improving Education in the Developing World: What Have We Learned from Randomized Evaluations? [0.03%]
发展中国家教育的改善：随机评估使我们学到了什么？
Michael Kremer,Alaka Holla
Michael Kremer
Across a range of contexts, reductions in education costs and provision of subsidies can boost school participation, often dramatically. Decisions to attend school seem subject to peer effects and time-inconsistent preferences. Merit schola...
International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies [0.03%]
国际健康经济学对比研究：来自老龄化的证据
James Banks,James P Smith
James Banks
Daniel J Benjamin,David Cesarini,Christopher F Chabris et al.
Daniel J Benjamin et al.
This article reviews existing research at the intersection of genetics and economics, presents some new findings that illustrate the state of genoeconomics research, and surveys the prospects of this emerging field. Twin studies suggest tha...
Jianqing Fan,Jinchi Lv,Lei Qi
Jianqing Fan
This paper reviews the literature on sparse high dimensional models and discusses some applications in economics and finance. Recent developments of theory, methods, and implementations in penalized least squares and penalized likelihood me...
Michael D Hurd
Michael D Hurd
Subjective probabilities are now collected on a number of large household surveys with the objective of providing data to better understand inter-temporal decision making. Comparison of subjective probabilities with actual outcomes shows th...
Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein,Jonathan Levin
Liran Einav
We describe recent advances in the empirical analysis of insurance markets. This new research proposes ways to estimate individual demand for insurance and the relationship between prices and insurer costs in the presence of adverse and adv...
Financial Structure and Economic Welfare: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics [0.03%]
金融结构与经济福利：应用一般均衡发展经济学
Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend
This review provides a common framework for researchers thinking about the next generation of micro-founded macro models of growth, inequality, and financial deepening, as well as direction for policy makers targeting microfinance programs ...