2011

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• Elections and political risk: New evidence from the 2008 Taiwanese Presidential Election AI翻译
  作者：Imai, Masami; Shelton, Cameron A.
  作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; Wesleyan University
  摘要：We examine the effects of party platforms on the economic opportunities of firms using a unique data set from a political prediction market in Taiwan, a country with two dominant parties whose political cleavage derives mainly from a single issue: the One China Principle. We find that during the 2008 Presidential campaign, the share price of Taiwanese firms with investments in the mainland responded strongly and positively to a positive electoral outlook for the KMT, the party which advocates ...
• New directions in the economics of welfare: Special issue celebrating Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's 75th birthday Preface AI翻译
  作者：Anand, Paul
  作者单位：Open University - UK; University of Oxford
• Political Intergenerational Risk Sharing (vol 94, pg 628, 2009) AI翻译
  作者：D' Amato, Marcello; Galasso, Vincenzo
  作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Salerno
• Strategic behavior in repeated voluntary contribution experiments AI翻译
  作者：Mengel, Friederike; Peeters, Ronald
  作者单位：Maastricht University
  摘要：We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using the strategy method and compare contribution behavior in a partner and a stranger matching in both a cold and a hot setting, where the latter differs from the former by allowing participants to revise their strategies in each round. Irrespective of whether the setting is hot or cold we find that partners provide higher initial contributions than strangers. In the cold setting (without revision possibility) partners c...
• The power of asking: How communication affects selfishness, empathy, and altruism AI翻译
  作者：Andreoni, James; Rao, Justin M.
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yahoo! Inc
  摘要：To understand the pure incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which clearly must influence choices. Charities, for example, speak of the power of asking. Indeed, evolutionary theories of altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between herself and a receiver...
• Health insurance and the consumer bankruptcy decision: Evidence from expansions of Medicaid AI翻译
  作者：Gross, Tal; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
  作者单位：Columbia University; University of Chicago
  摘要：Anecdotal evidence and several observational studies suggest that out-of-pocket medical costs are pivotal in a large fraction of consumer bankruptcy decisions. In this paper, we assess the contribution of medical costs to household bankruptcy risk by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in publicly provided health insurance. Using cross-state variation in Medicaid expansions from 1992 to 2004, we find that a 10 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility reduces personal bankruptcies...
• Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment AI翻译
  作者：Karlan, Dean; List, John A.; Shafir, Eldar
  作者单位：University of Chicago; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; Princeton University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：To further our understanding of the economics of charity, we conducted a natural field experiment. Making use of two direct mail solicitations sent to nearly 20,000 prior donors to a charity, we tested the effectiveness of $1:$1 and $1:$3 matching grants on charitable giving. We find only weak evidence that either of the matches work; in fact, for the full sample, the match only increased giving after the match deadline expired. Yet, the aggregation masks important heterogeneities: those donor...
• A dominance approach to the appraisal of the distribution of well-being across countries AI翻译
  作者：Muller, Christophe; Trannoy, Alain
  作者单位：Aix-Marseille Universite
  摘要：This paper proposes a dominance approach to study inequality of well-being across countries. We consider a class of well-being indices based on the three attributes used in the HDI (Human Development Index). Indices are required to satisfy: preference for egalitarian marginal distributions of income, health and education. ALEP substitution of attributes and priority to poor countries in allocating funds to enhance health and education. We exhibit sufficient conditions for checking dominance ov...
• Entry regulation and business start-ups: Evidence from Mexico AI翻译
  作者：Kaplan, David S.; Piedra, Eduardo; Seira, Enrique
  作者单位：Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
  摘要：We estimate the effect on business start-ups of a program that significantly speeds up firm registration procedures. The program was implemented in Mexico in different municipalities at different dates. Our estimates suggest that new start-ups increased by about 5% per month in eligible industries, and we present evidence supporting robustness and a causal effect interpretation. Most of the effect is temporary, concentrated in the first 15 months after implementation. The estimated effect is m...
• The impact of state tax subsidies for private long-term care insurance on coverage and Medicaid expenditures AI翻译
  作者：Goda, Gopi Shah
  作者单位：Stanford University
  摘要：In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12% of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on long-term care. In this paper, I exploit variation in the adoption and generosity of state tax subsidies for private long-term care insurance to determine whether tax subsidies increase private coverage and reduce Me...