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作者：Gonzalez, Felipe; Martinez, Luis R.; Munoz, Pablo; Prem, Mounu
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of Chicago; Universidad de Chile
摘要：We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching college age in the following years. Using administrative data from the vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected cohorts. We es...
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作者：Heiss, Florian; Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco
作者单位：Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf; University of Southampton; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; Fondazione Bruno Kessler; FBK-IRVAPP - Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies
摘要：This paper studies consumers' choice between two different water tariffs. We document a large inaction in a novel setting where customers face a binary decision and receive simple, detailed, and personalized information about the financial savings they would obtain if they were to switch water tariff. Our empirical framework separates two sources of inertia: inattention and switching costs. The model estimates that half of the customers that would benefit from changing tariff are not aware of ...
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作者：Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; Abimpaye, Monique; Dusabe, Caroline; Uwamahoro, Marie D.; Germond, Richard
作者单位：University of Pavia; Save the Children
摘要：This paper investigates the short- and medium-term impact of a randomized group-based early child development program targeting parents of children aged 6-24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. This low-intensity, short-duration, and low-cost program engaged parents through sessions that included a novel radio show and facilitated discussions during 17 weekly village-level meetings. The intervention included two treatment arms, with different components. Twelve months after baseline, c...
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作者：Andreoni, James; Callen, Michael; Hussain, Karrar; Khan, Muhammad Yasir; Sprenger, Charles
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; California Institute of Technology
摘要：We use estimates of time preferences to customize incentives for polio vaccinators in Lahore, Pakistan. We measure time preferences using intertemporal allocations of effort, and use these estimates to construct individually tailored incentives. We evaluate the effect of matching contract terms to discounting parameters in a subsequent experiment with the same vaccinators. Our tailored policy is compared with alternatives that either rely on atheoretic reduced-form relationships for policy gui...
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作者：Benigno, Pierpaolo
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：Can currency competition affect central banks' control of interest rates and prices? Yes, it can. In a two-currency world with competing cash (material or digital), the growth rate of the cryptocurrency sets an upper bound on the nominal interest rate and the attainable inflation rate, if the government currency is to retain its role as medium of exchange. In any case, the government has full control of the inflation rate. With an interest-bearing digital currency, equilibria in which governme...
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作者：Bhalotra, Sonia; Venkataramani, Atheendar; Walther, Selma
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Pennsylvania; University of Sussex
摘要：We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation, and an improvement in occupational status. Our results provide the first evidence that improvements in child survival allow wo...
