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Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages
Mocan, Naci H. - 2009
males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …
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Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?
Gregory, Christian A. - 2009
BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at …) models or specifications focusing on long-lags of BMI are more similar to those for women. The findings for females (and the …
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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America
Caruso, Martín - 2019
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...
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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Basurto, Pia M. - 2017
Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...
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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru
Karlan, Dean - 2013
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...
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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2013
Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...
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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation
Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012
At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...
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Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Paloviita, Maritta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...
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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes
Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or a control condition. Four to five years later, the treatment group was 11 percentage points less likely to be depressed than the control group. The more effective intervention...
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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Bohren, J. Aislinn - 2019
Discrimination has been widely studied in economics and other disciplines. In addition to identifying evidence of discrimination, economists often categorize the source of discrimination as either taste-based or statistical. Categorizing discrimination in this way can be valuable for policy...
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