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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Bergman, Peter Leopold S.; Chan, Eric W. - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital

Caruso, Germán; de Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

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Education and Mental Health: Causal Effects and Intra-Family Spillovers

Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024

is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and … show that each spouse’s education has a favorable impact on women’s mental health, but the effect of husbands’ education …

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A Costly Commitment: Populism, Government Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy

Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Vannoni, Matia - 2021

We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust in representative democracy, populists strategically supply unconditional policy commitments that are easier to monitor for voters. When in power, populists implement their...

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Monetary Policy Communications and their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2019

We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized controlled trial. We first solicit individuals’ inflation expectations in the Nielsen Homescan panel and then provide eight different forms of information regarding inflation....

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Five facts about beliefs and portfolios

Giglio, Stefano; Maggiori, Matteo; Stroebel, Johannes; … - 2019

We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition and...

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A micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches

Rottmann, Horst; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2010

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms which regularly queries the firms' assessment of the current willingness of banks to extend credit we estimate the probability of a restrictive credit supply policy by time...

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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2020

We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized controlled trial using more than 25,000 U.S. individuals...

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The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael; … - 2020

We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households’ spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and...

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