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Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income

Miller, Sarah; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Bartik, Alexander W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized … experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control …-sectional correlation between income and health lies well outside our confidence intervals. We also find that the transfer did not improve …

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Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior

Haushofer, Johannes; Lowes, Sara; Musau, Abednego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...

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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control

Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...

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Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Maternal Care : Experimental Evidence on Domain Knowledge and Nudgeability from Recalcitrant Pakistan

Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Cesur, Resul; Civelek, Yasin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral barriers to maternal care uptake in the countryside of a developing country, where a significant share of women forgoes life-saving maternity-related care even when within reach....

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Do Patients Value High-Quality Medical Care? Experimental Evidence from Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment

López, Carolina; Sautmann, Anja; Schaner, Simone - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored information about the importance of rapid diagnostic tests...

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

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Estimating Perceptions of the Relative COVID Risk of Different Social-Distancing Behaviors from Respondents' Pairwise Assessments

Heffetz, Ori; Rabin, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How do people compare bundles of social-distancing behaviors? During the COVID pandemic, we showed 676 online respondents in the US, UK, and Israel 30 pairs of brief videos of acquaintances meeting. We asked them to indicate which in each pair depicted greater risk of COVID infection. Their...

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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...

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The Effects of Medical Debt Relief : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wong, Francis; Yin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized experiments that relieved...

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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019

Many real-life settings of consumer-choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover-effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare-effects of policy-interventions in binary choice settings with social interactions. Examples...

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