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The Perils of Voter Mobilization
Marx, Benjamin - 2017
Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election, a...
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Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019
Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult task. We use the universe of de-identified cellphone usage records from more than one million users in a Chinese...
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A Model of Influencer Economy
Cong, Lin William; Li, Siguang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...
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Inheritances, Health and Death
Kim, Beomsoo - 2009
We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although...
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003
behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle …
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An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity : Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Chou, Shin-Yi - 2002
Since the late 1970s, the number of obese adults in the United States has grown by over 50 percent. This paper examines the factors that may be responsible for this rapidly increasing prevalence rate. To study the determinants of adult obesity and related outcomes, we employ micro-level data...
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The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change : A Theoretical and Empirical Examination
Lakdawalla, Darius - 2002
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the long-run growth in weight over time. We argue that technological change has induced weight growth by making home- and market-production more sedentary and by lowering food prices through agricultural innovation. We analyze how...
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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016
Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...
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A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools : The Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1999
This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...
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Direct and Spillover Effects from Staggered Adoption of Health Policies : Evidence from COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders
Elenev, Vadim; Quintero, Luis E.; Rebucci, Alessandro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-at-Home-Orders (SHOs) aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19 on mobility and social interaction measures. We propose a modified … adopted the SHO, and neighbors, to the neighbor's neighbors, which we term hinterland, counties. We find that mobility in … in neighbors that share media markets with treated counties. Using directional mobility data, we decompose the spillover …
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