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Islam, Marco - 2021

How do people assess risks associated with a hedonic but dangerous activity? I conduct a longitudinal field experiment (N=434) exploiting the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate whether monetary incentives induce people to motivate their risk assessments. Each participant receives...

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Public officials' treatment of minority clients

Adman, Per; Taghizadeh, Jonas Larsson - 2020

The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further investigations are needed. Field experiments in the...

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Welfare reforms and cild well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - 2008

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …

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Distribution and labour market incentives in the welfare state: Danish experiences

Andersen, Torben M.; Haagen Pedersen, Lars - 2008

In recent years, Denmark has been successful in ensuring and maintaining a low unemployment rate. However, almost one third of the working-age population remains dependent on public transfers, a fact which poses questions on both social inclusion and financial pressures on the welfare state. In...

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Macroeconomic policy effectiveness and inequality: Efficacy of gender budgeting in Asia Pacific

Chakraborty, Lekha; Ingrams, Marian; Singh, Yadawendra - 2019

Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country's national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While the literature has explored the connection between reducing gender inequality and achieving growth and equitable...

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The age-time-cohort problem and the identification of structural parameters in life-cycle models

Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2017

A standard approach to estimating structural parameters in life-cycle models imposes sufficient assumptions on the data to identify the "age profile" of outcomes, then chooses model parameters so that the model's age profile matches this empirical age profile. I show that this approach is both...

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Free to fail? Paternalistic preferences in the United States

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hermes, Henning; … - 2023

We study paternalistic preferences in two large-scale experiments with participants from the general population in the United States. Spectators decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, who is mistaken about the choice set, from making a choice that is not aligned with the...

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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?

Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2020

Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...

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The psychological effects of poverty on investments in children's human capital

Lichand, Guilherme; Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; … - 2020

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, but also, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty …

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Arm-wrestling in the classroom: The non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers

Lichand, Guilherme; Wolf, Sharon - 2020

Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should ameliorate those problems, mobilizing parents to do so often leads to small or even negative effects on learning outcomes. This paper provides causal evidence that this might result...

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