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The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps … disease. However, such knowledge is arguably only a necessary condition for targeting these objectives. In this paper, we … describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no …
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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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produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have … more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the … allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe …
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As the world becomes more financially integrated and complex, average individuals and their families are increasingly faced with making highly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible financial decisions. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to retirement decision-making. Indeed,...
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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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drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the …
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How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …
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In 1961, Nicholas Kaldor used his list of six "stylized" facts both to summarize the patterns that economists had discovered in national income accounts and to shape the growth models that they were developing to explain them. Redoing this exercise today, nearly fifty years later, shows how much...
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