Health Economics - Part 6

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Health Economics - Part 8

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Health Economics - Part 9

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Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia by Meg Rithmire

By Ruixue Jia

Journal of Economic Literature

Policy for Papers Conducting Experiments and Collecting Primary Data

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Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-up of Naloxone

By Mireille Jacobson and David Powell

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We conducted a field experiment that randomized advertisements, advertisement content, and prices across 2,204 counties in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising increased w...

Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation

By Jamie Hansen-Lewis and Michelle Marcus

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Maritime shipping emits as much fine particulate matter as half of global road traffic. We are the first to measure the consequences of US maritime emissions standards on air quality, human health, racial exposure disparities, and behavior. The introduc...

Remote Instruction and Student Mental Health: Swedish Evidence from the Pandemic

By Evelina Björkegren, Helena Svaleryd, and Jonas Vlachos

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

When COVID-19 reached Sweden, upper-secondary students (ages 17–19) transitioned to remote instruction, while lower-secondary schools (ages 14–16) remained open. We use this setting as a natural experiment to analyze how modes of instruction affect st...

Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses

By Simin He, Jiabin Wu, Hanzhe Zhang, and Xun Zhu

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We experimentally examine the Becker-Shapley-Shubik two-sided matching model. In the experiment, the aggregate outcomes of matching and surplus are affected by whether equal split is in the core and whether efficient matching is assortative; the canonic...

Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments

By Sylvain Chassang and Christian Zehnder

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study secure survey designs in organizational settings where fear of retaliation makes it hard to elicit the truth. Theory predicts that: (i) randomized-response techniques offer no improvement, because they are strategically equivalent to direct eli...

Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance

By Arno Apffelstaedt ⓡ Jana Freundt

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Allegations of voter fraud accompany many real-world elections. How does electoral malpractice affect the acceptance of elected institutions? Using an online experiment in which participants distribute income according to majority-elected rules, we sho...

2024 Continuing Education Webcasts

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Central Bank Credibility and Fiscal Responsibility

By Jesse Schreger, Pierre Yared, and Emilio Zaratiegui

American Economic Review: Insights

We consider a New Keynesian model with strategic monetary and fiscal interactions. The fiscal authority maximizes social welfare. Monetary policy is delegated to a central bank with an anti-inflation bias that suffers from a lack of commitment. The imp...

2024 Awards & Presidential Address

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Front Matter

American Economic Review, February 2024

Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan

By Faisal Bari ⓡ Kashif Malik ⓡ Muhammad Meki ⓡ Simon Quinn

American Economic Review, February 2024

We run a field experiment offering graduated microcredit clients the opportunity to finance a business asset worth four times their usual borrowing limit. We implement this using a hire-purchase contract; our control group is offered a zero interest loan ...

Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors

By Marika Cabral and Marcus Dillender

American Economic Review, February 2024

Little is known about what drives gender disparities in health care and related social insurance benefits. Using data and variation from the Texas workers' compensation program, we study the impact of gender match between doctors and patients on medical e...

The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills

By Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, and Michael Rosholm

American Economic Review, February 2024

This paper studies the interplay between genetics and family investments in the process of skill formation. We model and estimate the joint evolution of skills and parental investments throughout early childhood. We document three genetic mechanisms: the ...

Old Age Risks, Consumption, and Insurance

By Richard Blundell, Margherita Borella, Jeanne Commault, and Mariacristina De Nardi

American Economic Review, February 2024

In the United States, after age 65, households face income and health risks, and a large fraction of these risks are transitory. While consumption significantly responds to transitory income shocks, out-of-pocket medical expenses do not. In contrast, both...