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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational … predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost of information or stronger priors are less responsive to variations in … economic conditions at destination, as migrants rationally get less information before deciding where to move. The econometric …
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This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non … treatment. Taken together, this study highlights the relevance of information provision on pecuniary and non-pecuniary labor …
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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in … in Indonesia to explore how information about intermediary quality shapes migration choices and outcomes. Information …-departure preparation and have higher-quality job experiences abroad, despite no change in occupation or destination. Information does not …
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What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others … combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. In different treatment groups, we either provide information about … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …
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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
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