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Ode to the Sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Gneezy, Uri - 2014

approach is to compare behavior in Brazilian fishermen societies that differ along one major dimension: the workplace … organization. In one society (located by the sea) fishermen are forced to work in groups whereas in the adjacent society (located … on a lake) fishing is inherently an individual activity. We report sharp evidence that the sea fishermen trust and …

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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey : The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk

Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019

This study uses hedonic property models to explore how coastal real estate markets subject to heterogeneous information treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by examining non-local flooding events. Utilizing a...

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The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2014

In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected nature of the spill and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of...

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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China

Démurger, Sylvie; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Woo, Wing Thye; … - 2021

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...

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Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor : Evidence from Kenya's Western Province

Dupas, Pascaline - 2013

Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. In this paper, we combine experimental and survey evidence from Western Kenya to document some of the supply and demand factors behind such low levels of financial inclusion. Our experiment had two parts. In the first part, we waived the...

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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China

Chen, Xi - 2017

China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce economic inequities. Yet the impact of this program is mitigated if those eligible fail to enroll. This...

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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...

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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa

McMillan, Margaret - 2013

This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...

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Fifteen Years on : Household Incomes in South Africa

Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between 1993 and 2008; the start and the end of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid South Africa. These data show an increase in average per capita real incomes across the distribution....

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Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China

Chen, Yuyu - 2010

Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) has affected child mortality, maternal mortality, and school enrollment of the 6-16 years olds. Our data cover 5.9 million people living in eight low-income rural...

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