We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the … brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources during this period prior to the widespread … of beer scarcity driven by tax increases, weather events, and soil quality, we show that beer scarcity was associated …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …