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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg; McConnell, Margaret; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In a field experiment in Uganda, we find that demand after a free distribution of three health products is lower than after a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put...
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity: A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China’s Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Allcott, Hunt; Rogers, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
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The Endowment Effect
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; Fuster, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The endowment effect is among the best known findings in behavioral economics, and has been used as evidence for theories of reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. However, a recent literature has questioned the robustness of the effect in the laboratory, as well as its relevance in...
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Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical expenses. However, it is the rich who are most likely to live long and face expensive medical conditions when very old. We estimate a rich structural model of savings and endogenous medical...
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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management
Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...
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Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A central justification for social insurance and for other policies aimed at retirement savings is that individuals may fail to make adequate provision during their working years. Much research has focused on myopia and other behavioral limitations. Yet little attention has been devoted to how...
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Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization
Adelino, Manuel; Gerardi, Kristopher; Willen, Paul S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We document the fact that servicers have been reluctant to renegotiate mortgages since the foreclosure crisis started in 2007, having performed payment reducing modifications on only about 3 percent of seriously delinquent loans. We show that this reluctance does not result from securization:...
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