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Who’s declining the “free lunch”? New evidence from the uptake of public child dental benefits
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Le, Huong Thu; Connelly, Luke B. - 2020
Recent economic literature has advanced the notion that cognitive biases and behavioural barriers may be important influencers of uptake decisions in respect of public programs that are designed to help disadvantaged people. This paper provides the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of...
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Does Economic Insecurity Reduce all Types of Expenditures?
Lepinteur, Anthony; Yin, Rémi - 2022
The prudence theory predicts that economic insecurity reduces all consumption expenditures. We question this prediction by estimating the effect of economic insecurity on various expenditure items using an Australian longitudinal data set (HILDA) and panel regressions. Our results confirm that...
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Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Jales, Hugo B.; Liu, Judith; … - 2023
We analyze the role played by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in alleviating or exacerbating …
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Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data
Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023
Cognitive misperception contributed to poor decision-making; yet their impact on health-related decisions is less known. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease awareness among older Chinese adults. Data were obtained from the China Health and Retirement...
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From Perception to Action: The Influence of Distrust in Government on Panic Buying in the COVID-19 Era
Sari, Emre - 2023
This research explores the complex dynamics of panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a comprehensive cross-sectional dataset from an online survey conducted in T¨urkiye, I employ the control function approach to examine the psychological and societal effects of the pandemic. The...
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Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate
Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between historically rooted norms that drive individuals to adhere to predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants, we identify an intergenerationally transmitted component...
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Gender Inequality in Nutrition Intake: Evidence from a Large Assistance Program
Wang, Qing; Zhang, Shiying - 2020
This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program … covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension status and pension income...
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Maternal Health, Children Education and Women Empowerment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India
Chatterjee, Somdeep; Poddar, Prashant - 2019
The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly the impact on cognitive ability of children. In this paper, we study one such popular policy from India, viz, the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe...
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What Is the Value Added by Using Causal Machine Learning Methods in a Welfare Experiment Evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019
Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...
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