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significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …
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This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and …, but it did not affect other dimensions of health, including life expectancy. We find that, at age 20, those born in …
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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The difference between … health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough horizon to …
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We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a …
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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education … investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose …
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employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through … initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels … adjustment is highly uneven across workers according to their conditions of employment in the pre-shock period …
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This paper develops a simple competitive model of CEO pay. A large part of the rise in CEO compensation in the US economy is explained without assuming managerial entrenchment, mishandling of options, or theft. CEOs have observable managerial talent and are matched to assets in a competitive...
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unemployment insurance but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our approach is intuitive … welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of …
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, potentially increasing the marginal product and wages of lower-skill teachers …
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We summarize a framework for the study of the implications of automation and AI on the demand for labor, wages, and … employment. Our task-based framework emphasizes the displacement effect that automation creates as machines and AI replace labor … in tasks that it used to perform. This displacement effect tends to reduce the demand for labor and wages. But it is …
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