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The Value of Life in General Equilibrium

Jena, Anupam B.; Mulligan, Casey; Philipson, Tomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Perhaps the most important change of the last century was the great expansion of life itself -- in the US alone, life expectancy increased from 48 to 78 years. Recent economic estimates confirm this claim, finding that the economic value of the gain in longevity was on par with the value of...

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Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities

Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; Cummins, Clint - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Life expectancy at birth, estimated from United States period life tables, has been shown to vary systematically and widely by region and race. We use the same tables to estimate the probability of survival from birth to age 70 (S70), a measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more...

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The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program

Imberman, Scott A.; Kugler, Adriana D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In response to low take-up, many public schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We examine whether such a program increases performance as measured by standardized test scores, grades and attendance rates. We exploit quasi-random timing of program...

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Girl Power: Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi

Baird, Sarah J.; Chirwa, Ephraim; Hoop, Jacobus de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

and early marriages, better health - and generally enabled beneficiaries to improve their agency within their households …

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The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

-markets overlapping-generations model in which individuals choose education and form households, and households choose consumption and … by gender and education. The model is parameterized using micro data from the PSID, the CPS and the CEX. With the … also assess the role played by education, labor supply, and saving in providing insurance against shocks, and in exploiting …

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The Perils of Peer Effects

Angrist, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer effects are vacuous, either unity or, if the average is defined as leave-out, determined by a generic intraclass...

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Integrated Insurance Design in the Presence of Multiple Medical Technologies

Philipson, Tomas; Goldman, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The classic theory of moral hazard concerns the insurance of a single good and predicts that co-insurance is larger when the elasticity of demand is higher and when small risks are insured. We extend this analysis to the insurance of multiple goods; for example, the simultaneous insurance of...

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Competition and the Cost of Capital Revisited: Special Authorities and Underwriters in the Market for Tax-emempt Hospital Bonds

Grossman, Michael; Gershberg, Alec Ian; Goldman, Fred - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

We explore the effects of two kinds of competition on the cost of capital in the tax-exempt bond market: (1) competition amongst underwriters and (2) competition amongst issuers (most of which are quasi-public special authorities sanctioned by state governments). The first kind of...

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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

Falba, Tracy Ann; Gallo, William T.; Sindelar, Jody L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …

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Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?

Chaloupka, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, IV; Williams, Jenny; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

the student and administrator components of the 1997 and 1999 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College …

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