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resource. We investigate the behavior of an agent who optimally consumes a cake (or paycheck or workload) over time and who …-control behaviors, and the altered economic behavior following imposition of cognitive loads. At the same time, willpower depletion …
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outcomes - are driven by selection into behavior. This paper considers the additional factor that these selection patterns may … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … varies over time with recommendations about behavior and that estimates of the relationship between health outcomes and …
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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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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...
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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...
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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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messages that seek to alter people's perceptions of what constitutes "normal" behavior or values among their peers. The model …
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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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behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …
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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...
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