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List, John A. - 2009

Despite their current prevalence and historical significance, little is known about the economics of open air markets. This paper uses open air markets as a natural laboratory to provide initial insights into the underlying operation of such markets. Using data on thousands of individual...

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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andersen, Steffen - 2014

Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...

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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What accounts for the ubiquity of small vendors operating side-by-side in the urban centers of developing countries? Why don't competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we induced (via subsidizing) some vendors to sell...

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Inheritances, Health and Death

Kim, Beomsoo - 2009

We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although...

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Healthy Living in Hard Times

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle …

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An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity : Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Chou, Shin-Yi - 2002

repeated cross sections are augmented with state level measures pertaining to the per capita number of fast- food restaurants …, the per capita number of full-service restaurants, the price of a meal in each type of restaurant, the price of food …

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The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change : A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

Lakdawalla, Darius - 2002

technological change has induced weight growth by making home- and market-production more sedentary and by lowering food prices … through agricultural innovation. We analyze how such technological change leads to unexpected relationships among income, food … prices, and weight. Using individual-level data from 1976 to 1994, we then find that such technology-based reductions in food …

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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016

Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...

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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?

Case, Anne - 1999

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …

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Food vs. Food Stamps : Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries …, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these … that the change from in-kind food aid to vouchers led to substantial impacts on poverty through the way it changed how …

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