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Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data on births from Australia, we estimate the level of patient bargaining power in negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that parents do not like to have children born on the “inauspicious” dates of February 29 and April 1. We show that, in general, the...

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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health …

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets—What Are the Welfare Effects?

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …

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Monopoly Insurance with Endogenous Information

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …

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Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Using a dataset covering over 10,000 Australian primary school teachers and over 90,000 pupils, I estimate how effective teachers are in raising students’ test scores from one exam to the next. Since the exams are conducted only every two years, it is necessary to take account of the...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Leigh, Andrew; Jencks, Christopher - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany,...

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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; Keating, Joseph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

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