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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric … (2007), our estimates indicate that the provision of piped water reduces infant mortality by significantly more at the … IMR distribution, when accompanied by other basic public health inputs, can achieve significantly greater reductions in …

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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso

McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Kazianga, Harounan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...

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Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption

Graff Zivin, Joshua; Schlenker, Wolfram; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water...

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Religiosity and State Welfare

Dills, Angela; Hernández-Julián, Rey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous decline in religiosity affected several measures of...

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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...

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What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics

Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel; Sándor, László - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We evaluate policies to increase prosocial behavior using a field experiment with 1,500 referees at the Journal of Public Economics. We randomly assign referees to four groups: a control group with a six week deadline to submit a referee report, a group with a four week deadline, a cash...

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Fair Weather Avoidance: Unpacking Costs and Benefits in Replication of 'Avoiding the Ask'

Andreoni, James; Trachtman, Hannah; Steinkruger, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

If being asked to give to charity stimulates an emotional response, like empathy, that makes giving difficult to resist, a natural self-control mechanism might be to avoid being asked in the first place. We replicate a result from a field experiment that points to the role of empathy in giving....

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Donative Behavior at the End of Life

Meer, Jonathan; Rosen, Harvey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate...

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Public Goods, Hidden Income, and Tax Evasion: Some Nonstandard Results from the Warm-Glow Model

Hungerman, Daniel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

A large literature explores crowd out in situations where public goods are jointly provided; work in this area typically depicts a tax system where individuals take taxes as given. But in some settings, such as those in developing economies, efforts to evade or avoid taxes may be widespread. Using...

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Toward an Understanding of why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

list, john; Edwards, James T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal attention. For their part, economists have recently...

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