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Discrete-Choice Models and Representative Consumer Theory

Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Joo, Joonhwi; Kim, Kyeongbae - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We establish the Hurwicz-Uzawa integrability of the broad class of discrete-choice additive random-utility models of individual consumer behavior with perfect substitutes preferences and divisible goods. We derive the corresponding indirect uility function and then establish a representative...

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Pros and Cons of Globalization : Income-Based Attitudes

Razin, Asaf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Which income group is pro-globalization or anti-globalization--the wealthy skilled-labor or the poor low-skilled labor? How globalization affect income-based attitudes towards globalization? The paper addresses these issues in the framework of a small open economy which trades in goods and...

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Non-Binary Gender Economics

Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Economics research has largely overlooked non-binary individuals. We aim to jump-start the literature by providing data on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender-based discrimination and express different career and...

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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare

Baqaee, David; Burstein, Ariel T.; Koike-Mori, Yasutaka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

are some households that do not face idiosyncratic undiversifiable risk. Our sufficient statistics methodology allows for …' prices over time, and repeated cross-sectional information on households' income, balance sheets, and expenditures. We … most households, particularly younger and poorer households. Our estimates can be used to study the welfare consequences of …

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A Mother's Voice : Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments

Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in Uganda. The hypothesis is that the training will enable...

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Time Savings When Working from Home

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...

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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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The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...

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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Chapter 6 from the forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2022 looks at human capital in greater detail, based on the latest human capital estimates from the Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) project. In the chapter, which is repeated here, the growth of human capital and several of its constituent...

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Is Income Inequality Linked to Infectious Disease Prevalence?$bA Hypothesis-Generating Ecological Study Using Tuberculosis

Bhattacharya, Jay; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Kim, Minkyong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the association between infectious disease prevalence and income inequality. We hypothesize that random social mixing in an income-unequal society brings into contact a) susceptible and infected poor and b) the infected-poor and the susceptible-rich, raising infectious disease...

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