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Nation Building and Economic Growth

By Ellyn Creasey, Ahmed S. Rahman, and Katherine A. Smith

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

Over the past half-century there have been over three hundred instances of nation building initiatives, episodes where countries jointly give military and economic aid to a country embroiled in conflict. Despite the prevalence and expense of this foreign...

Are Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving Efficient? Evidence from France

By Gabrielle Fack and Camille Landais

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, May 2010

This paper estimates the effect of tax incentives for charitable contributions in France. We focus on two reforms that increased the nonrefundable tax credit rate for charitable contributions by 32 percent. We use a difference-in-difference identification...

Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries

By Peter Siminski and Simon Ville

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

We estimate the effect of Vietnam-era Army service on mortality, exploiting Australia's conscription lotteries for identification. We utilize population data on deaths during 1994-2007 and military personnel records. The estimates are identified by over 5...

Disability Insurance and the Great Recession

By Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, and Alexander Strand

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2015

The US Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is designed to provide income support to workers who become unable to work because of a severe, long-lasting disability. In this study, we use administrative data to estimate the effect of labor m...

Shifts in Privacy Concerns

By Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

This paper explores how digitization and the associated use of customer data have affected the evolution of consumer privacy concerns. We measure privacy concerns by reluctance to disclose income in an online marketing research survey. Using over three mi...

On the Economics of State Lotteries

By Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

This article examines several aspects of the economics of state lotteries, focusing primarily on the demand for lottery products. We begin by giving a descriptive overview. The succeeding sections examine the motivations for playing lottery games and evid...

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature

By Janet Currie

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

Experimentation at Scale

[Symposium: From Experiments to Economic Policy]

By Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments "at scale." We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions—the size o...

Menu Pricing and Learning

By Alessandro Bonatti

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2011

We analyze the design of dynamic menus to sell experience goods. The quality of the product is initially unknown, and the total quantity sold in each period determines the amount of information in the market. We characterize the optimum menu as a function...

Does the Secondary Life Insurance Market Threaten Dynamic Insurance?

By Glenn Daily, Igal Hendel, and Alessandro Lizzeri

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Productivity Change in Health Care

By David M. Cutler and Mark McClellan

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

By Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William 笔补谤颈别苍迟茅, and Vincent Pons

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2012

Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves healt...

The Allocation of Resources in the Presence of Indivisibilities

By Herbert Scarf

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1994

A major theme of economic theory is that optimality, at the level of the firm or the economy as a whole, can be reached by profit maximization using competitive prices. The conclusion requires the assumption that the production possibility set be convex a...

Symposium on Democracy and Development

[Symposium: Democracy and Development]

By Pranab Bardhan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1993

Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality

By Maximilian Auffhammer and Ryan Kellogg

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2011

This paper examines whether US gasoline content regulations, which impose substantial costs on consumers, have successfully reduced ozone pollution. We take advantage of spatial and temporal variation in the regulations' implementation to show that federa...

Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment

By Sebastian Galiani, Alvin Murphy, and Juan Pantano

蝌蚪网 Review, November 2015

We use data from a housing-assistance experiment to estimate a model of neighborhood choice. The experimental variation effectively randomizes the rents which households face and helps identify a key structural parameter. Access to two randomly selected t...

Asset Pricing with Concentrated Ownership of Capital and Distribution Shocks

By Kevin J. Lansing

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2015

This paper develops a production-based asset pricing model with two types of agents and concentrated ownership of physical capital. A temporary but persistent "distribution shock" causes the income share of capital owners to fluctuate in a procyclical man...

What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

By Katrine V. 尝酶办别苍, Magne Mogstad, and Matthew Wiswall

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2012

We assess the implications of nonlinearity for IV and FE estimation when the estimated model is inappropriately assumed to be linear. Our application is the causal link between family income and child outcomes. Our nonlinear IV and FE estimates show an ...

Fairness and Redistribution: Reply

By Alberto Alesina, George-Marios Angeletos, and Guido Cozzi

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2013

This paper responds to the comment of Di Tella and Dubra (2013). We first clarify that the model of Alesina and Angeletos (2005) admits two distinct types of multiplicity: one that is at the core of their contribution, and a separate one that is at work i...

Is There a Method of Neuroeconomics?

By Aldo Rustichini

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009

This note tries to state, precisely, the method of neuroecomics, and is based on the discussion in B. Douglas Bernheim's (2009) appraisal. We claim that the theory formulates hypotheses modeling the choice process as an algorithmic procedure. The hypot...