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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Gender, Perceived Discrimination and the Overruling of Roe v. Wade

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan - 2025

Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...

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Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States

Yörük, Baris - 2022

The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age-based health insurance policies in the United States as...

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Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?

Kaeser, Aflatun; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of stringent immigration policies and large volumes of...

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Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk

Koşar, Gizem; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2023

consumption and labor supply decisions on their subjective beliefs about future labor market risks. This paper analyzes these …

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Locus of Control and the Preference for Agency

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Silva … - 2023

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to … of control and beliefs about the return to effort. We find that internal locus of control is linked to the preference for …

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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … preferences and beliefs explain compliance differences by gender, only preferences drive differences by vulnerability. When others … vulnerables more. When a public figure breaches the rules, opponents comply less. Heterogenous beliefs, preferences, and responses …

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Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Social Activism

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2023

the social problem, correct misaligned beliefs about others' willingness to act, or both. Participants are then cross … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …

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The Behavioral Mechanisms of Voluntary Cooperation across Culturally Diverse Societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative … subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …

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