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of ethanol exposure did not interfere with rats' ability to behave according to economic theory. In the first experiment … original levels. In the second experiment rats responded to increased ethanol prices but not to a cue signaling future price …
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This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and …
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This paper uses three decades of studies with Rhesus monkeys to investigate the intergenerational effects of early life advantage. Monkeys and their offspring were both randomly assigned to be reared together or apart from their mothers. We document significant intergenerational effects of...
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scores in terms of a student's position in a widening distribution of knowledge. If a standard deviation in test scores in … later grades translates into a larger difference in knowledge, an intervention's effect on normalized test scores may fall … even as its effect on knowledge does not. We evaluate this hypothesis by fitting a model of education production to …
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This study examines the effect of experience and knowledge on weather insurance adoption. First, we conduct insurance …
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We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...
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predictions. Here we evaluate the first major global legalization experiment in an internationally banned market, where a … monitoring system established before the experiment enables us to observe the behavior of illegal suppliers before and after …-time legal sale of ivory stocks to China and Japan in 2008 was designed as an experiment, but its global impact has not been …
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for retirement. Many respondents display limited knowledge and understanding of public and company-provided retirement … remainder of their lifetimes, many do not possess enough basic financial knowledge to confidently make optimal choices …
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We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the …-like complaints visits the same physician. Simulated patient A is instructed to ask a question that showcases his/her knowledge of … patient's knowledge of appropriate antibiotics use reduces both antibiotic prescription rates and drug expenditures. Such …
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suggest that causality is more likely to run from pension wealth to pension knowledge, rather than the other way around … Security knowledge. Third, standardizing for incomes and other factors, a pension of higher value does not substitute for other …, other things the same. Fourth, there is no evidence that wealth held outside of pensions is influenced by knowledge of …
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