Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we find that a small hassle – a requirement to actively...

Hospitals face large and variable costs from treating indigent care patients. Two methods of "reinsuring" hospitals against these costs are providing these patients with insurance and directly providing hospitals with supplemental payments to cover the expected costs of treating the indigent....

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation of this disparate development in terms of elite dominance that discriminates against the...

Marathi Abstract: सन 1991 च्या मुक्त आर्थिक धोरणाच्या माध्यमातून आलेले जगातिकीकरण मुळात कुणाच्या फायद्याचे ठरणार आहे याचा...

Globalization is fast casting its hypnotic spells on developing countries, which are unable to resist the lure in the name of development. After more than decade of freeing doors of the Indian economy for the Globalization, there is increased debate on its impact on the daliths who are poor and...

While quota based and other affirmative action remains on the policy radar of nations faced with social inequalities, there is limited evidence informing policy choices at the national level. This paper estimates the mid-term impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in...

"This book examines Ambedkar the economist. It foregrounds his economic ideas within the context of post-independence India. It also studies the socio-economic status of Dalits in the country focusing on Ambedkar's views on inclusive and equitable growth. The volume: Focuses on the economic...

What are the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept between inflation and unemployment? We find that people dislike unemployment more than inflation. This is true for both Europe and Latin America. For the latter, the aversion to unemployment relative to inflation is much greater....

Unser Steuer-, Abgaben- und Transfersystem ist gerade für Familien am unteren Ende der Einkommensskala nur bedingt leistungsgerecht. Es gilt daher, Steuern, Sozialabgaben und Transferleistungen so aufeinander abzustimmen, dass sich (zusätzliche) Erwerbsarbeit in jedem Fall lohnt.

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically...

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and...

We contribute to the school-competition literature by evaluating a program that randomly assigned private schools to underserved villages in Pakistan. Program schools were provided a per-student subsidy to provide tuition-free primary education, with half of the treated villages receiving a...

This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures...

We contribute to the school-competition literature by evaluating a program that randomly assigned private schools to underserved villages in Pakistan. Program schools were provided a per-student subsidy to provide tuition-free primary education, with half of the treated villages receiving a...

This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures...

A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market consequences of childhood peers. We examine this question by linking administrative data on elementary school...

A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market consequences of childhood peers. We examine this question by linking administrative data on elementary school...

Das neuartige Arbeitsmarktinstrument "Soziale Aktivierung" versammelt Maßnahmen, deren Wirkungen über die dominierenden Ziele der direkten und zeitnahen Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt hinausgehen sollen. Anhand von Fallbeispielen wie Kung-Fu-Kursen oder Theatergruppen rekonstruiert Carolin...

Introduction -- Positioning strategies for branding services in BoPM -- Marketing mix strategies for service brands in BoPM in Africa -- Positioning strategies and positioning activities of upscale retailers in BoPM in Africa -- Social networks and relationships for positioning micro and small...

The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and...

The housing crisis -- The breakdown of mortgage servicing & loss mitigation -- Zombie mortgages & abandoned properties -- The benefits & harms of intervention -- Rethinking home : housing post-crisis -- Foreclosure or a more sustainable mortgage? -- Picking up the pieces & revitalizing...

Introduction -- Positioning strategies for branding services in BoPM -- Marketing mix strategies for service brands in BoPM in Africa -- Positioning strategies and positioning activities of upscale retailers in BoPM in Africa -- Social networks and relationships for positioning micro and small...