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Breastfeeding and Child Development

By Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos 痴别谤补-贬别谤苍谩苍诲别锄

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's developm...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180385

Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries

By Elisabeth Artmann, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

To assess the importance of unequal access to medical expertise and services, we estimate the causal effects of having a child who is a doctor on parents' mortality and health care use. We use data from parents of almost 22,000 participants in admission l...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20190629

Emotions and Risk Attitudes

By Armando N. Meier

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a lar...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200164

Neighbors' Effects on University Enrollment

By 础苍诲谤茅蝉 叠补谤谤颈辞蝉-贵别谤苍谩苍诲别锄

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

This paper combines detailed geographic information and individual educational records in Chile to provide causal evidence that close neighbors significantly influence enrollment in university. I exploit the quasi-random variation generated by student loa...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200360

Peer Effects in Product Adoption

By Michael Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Arlene Wong

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the nature of peer effects in the market for cell phones. To identify peer effects, we exploit variation in friends' new phone acquisitions resulting from random phone losses. A new phone purchase by a frie...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200367

The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles

By Julien Lafortune and David 厂肠丑枚苍丑辞濒锄别谤

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We study school facility investments using administrative records from Los Angeles. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the timing of new facility openings and using a residential assignment instrument, we find positive impacts on test scores, attendance...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200467

Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation

By Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, and Farah Said

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We conduct lab experiments to investigate demand for consumption agency in married couples from Pakistan. Most subjects are no better at guessing their spouse's preferences than those of a stranger, suggesting that individual executive agency has instrume...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200672

Adam Smith: Critical Theorist?

By Keith Tribe

Journal of Economic Literature, June 1999

The bicentenary of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1976 was marked by the publication of a new complete edition of his works and correspondence, bringing together for the first time all extant published and unpublished writings. A basis was thereby prov...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.37.2.609