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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Exploiting the temporal and spatial variations in economic hardship across provinces, we show that the deep economic...

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The Midlife Crisis

Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...

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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans : New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations

Costa, Dora L.; Lewis, CoraLee; Yetter, Noelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of...

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Effects of Income on Infant Health : Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks

Lyu, Wei; Wehby, George; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth … economically meaningful effects on infant health. Overall, the findings suggest that income transfers during pregnancy will have … little effect on socioeconomic disparities in infant health …

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Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We incorporate reference-dependent preferences into a search-and-matching model of the labor market, in which firms have all the bargaining power and productivity follows an AR(1) process. Motivated by Akerlof (1982) and Bewley (1999), we assume that existing workers are willing to exert unobserved,

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Mechanim design and intentions

Bierbrauer, Felix; Netzer, Nick - 2012 - This version: August 2012

We introduce intention-based social preferences into a Bayesian mechanism design framework. We first show that, under common knowledge of social preferences, any tension between material efficiency, incentive compatibility, and voluntary participation can be resolved. Hence, famous impossibility...

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Fairness and motivation : fair treatment creates incentives, and is beneficial for workers and the frim

Falk, Armin - 2014

and field experiments, surveys, and observational data, as well as neuroeconomic research, suggests that workers …' perceptions of fairness and trust are also key drivers of their work effort. Treating employees with respect is not only ethically …

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Experimental Evidence on the Persistence of Output and Inflation

Adam, Klaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper presents experimental evidence from a monetary sticky price economy in which output and inflation depend on expected future inflation. With rational inflation expectations, the economy does not generate persistent deviations of output and inflation in response to a monetary shock. In...

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