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Mandated and Voluntary Social Distancing During The COVID-19 Epidemic : A Review
Gupta, Sumedha - 2020
For much of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic upended social and economic life globally. In an effort to reduce COVID-19 risks in the U.S., state and local governments issued many recommendations and regulations to induce social distancing, adding to voluntary reductions in interpersonal contact. The...
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Consumption Access and Agglomeration : Evidence from Smartphone Data
Miyauchi, Yuhei; Nakajima, Kentaro; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide new theory and evidence on the role of consumption access in understanding the agglomeration of economic activity. We combine smartphone data that records user location every 5 minutes of the day with economic census data on the location of service-sector establishments to measure...
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An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies
Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1998
Nationally representative studies consistently report significant gender and racial differences in youth smoking rates …: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies. Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the … protection laws and restrictions on youth access …
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - 2013
This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459233
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The Welfare Effect of a Consumer Subsidy with Price Ceilings : The Case of Chinese Cell Phones
Fan, Ying; Zhang, Ge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Subsidies to consumers may cause firms to charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for a subsidy dependent on firms' commitment to price ceilings. To quantify the...
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Digital Addiction
Allcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Song, Lena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing widespread food insecurity and a sharp decline in living standards. In response to this crisis, governments and humanitarian organizations worldwide have mobilized targeted social assistance programs....
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Fintech and Household Resilience to Shocks : Evidence from Digital Loans in Kenya
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2019
Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts of one of the most popular digital loan products in the world, M-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible...
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Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times : Evidence from Smartphone Data
Chen, M. Keith - 2019
Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from millions of smartphone users, we quantify a racial disparity in voting wait times across a nationwide sample of polling places during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Relative to entirely-white neighborhoods,...
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