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selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a … when the size of the externalities is arbitrarily small. Our result highlights the degree of control a principal has over …
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, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …
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examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the …Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their … magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural …
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This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and … conclusion is that NDC is neutral in terms of externalities. It manages the risks and eliminates the negative externalities …
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individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent externalities. For instance, a global sociological change where the …
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the existence of these positive externalities for the US in 2000 in estimates using the Current Population Survey …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …
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We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...
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BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the other hand,...
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