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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Anderson, Soren T. - 2013

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from …

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America

Caruso, Martín - 2019

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...

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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Basurto, Pia M. - 2017

Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...

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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean - 2013

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...

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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012

At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...

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Intangible Marketing Capital

Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...

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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

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Mothers and Others : Who Invests in Children's Health?

Case, Anne - 2000

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?

Currie, Janet - 2000

Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...

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