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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses
Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression...
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Inside the Refrigerator : Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
Watson, Tara - 2010
Economists have puzzled over why eligible individuals fail to enroll in social safety net programs. "Chilling effects" arising from an icy policy climate are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among immigrants, but such effects are inherently hard to measure. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139139
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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
Almond, Douglas - 2011
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117385
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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
If people get joy from giving, then why might they avoid fundraisers? We explore this in a randomized natural field experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main entrances to a supermarket, making the ask for a charitable...
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland - 2011
messages that seek to alter people's perceptions of what constitutes "normal" behavior or values among their peers. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118832
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India
Guindon, G. Emmanuel - 2011
The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing tobacco prices has been found to be the single most...
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The Trouble with Boys : Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
Bertrand, Marianne - 2011
behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119045
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Deterrence and the Death Penalty : Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections
Manski, Charles F. - 2011
Researchers have long used repeated cross sectional observations of homicide rates and sanctions to examine the deterrent effect of the adoption and implementation of death penalty statutes. The empirical literature, however, has failed to achieve consensus. A fundamental problem is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120198
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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
Saffer, Henry - 2011
This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...
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Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2011
participation may directly affect behavior; for example many religious organizations impose rules and proscriptions on their members … test to investigate the importance of religious proscriptions on behavior. Several empirical applications of this test are … conducted; the results indicate a strong role for religious proscriptions in determining behavior. The test developed here does …
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