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Relationship between maternal behavior during pregnancy, birth outcome, and early childhood development : an exploratory study

Li, Kai; Poirier, Dale J. - 2003

This study examines the relationship between maternal behavior during pregnancy, birth outcomes, and early childhood development. Specifically, in the context of four measures of maternal behavior during pregnancy (maternal smoking, drinking, prenatal care, and maternal weight gain), three...

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Although oil price shocks have long been viewed as one of the leading candidates for explaining U.S. recessions, surprisingly little is known about the extent to which oil price shocks explain recessions. We provide a formal analysis of this question with special attention to the possible role...

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I introduce a reduced form two-sided market model to study prediction and identification in two-sided markets. The …

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Lab in the field : measuring preferences in the wild

Genîzî, Ûrî; Imas, Alex - 2016

In this chapter, we discuss the "lab-in-the-field" methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field … begin by examining how the methodology has been used to test economic models with populations of theoretical interest. Next … covariates to test theoretical predictions and explore behavioral mechanisms. We proceed to discuss how the methodology can be …

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