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The Behavioral Economics of Altruism,Reciprocity,and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities:Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Transfers Triple Dictator Games Trust Games Malawi HIV/AIDS Game theory Transfer behavior
2016/3/18
Transfers between strangers, neighbors, families, and spouses were examined using Triple Dictator Games (TDG, involving only givings) and Trust Games (TG, involving both givings and reciprocations) am...
What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills?Impacts of Pre-Schooling,Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
Adult cognitive skills Behavioral determinants Genetic endowments Flynn effect Guatemala
2016/3/18
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But t...
An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Medicare Prescription drugs Health production Dynamic discrete choice Moral hazard
2016/3/18
Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernizati...
While much research has analyzed the access of Mexican immigrants to health benefits while in the US, little is known about how those who return to Mexico fare. We analyze health care access for Mexic...
Between 1970 and 1990 the share of elderly widows living alone grew by 23.2% in the U.S. (from 52.1% to 64.2%), the share living with their children decreased in a similar magnitude, while the other t...
The Effects of Early Childhood Diseases on Young Adult Health in Guatemala
Childhood morbidity Diseases Health INCAP Guatemala Cardiovascular Type 2 diabetes Metabolic syndrome Height Life outcomes
2016/3/18
This study examines the relationship between early childhood morbidity and young adult health in a poor developing country with a high prevalence of childhood diseases. I take advantage of the rich ob...
Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies,Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China
China Children Education Vision Health Developing countries Poverty Eyeglasses
2016/3/18
Few studies of educational barriers in developing countries have investigated the role of children’s vision problems, despite the self-evident challenge that poor vision poses to classroom learning an...
Health of Native-born and Foreign-born Black Residents in the United States:Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey
PUMS NHIS Disability Self-rated health Chronic conditions Black US residents Immigrant health advantage
2016/3/18
Utilizing the 5% Public Use Micro Data Sample (PUMS) from the 2000 Census of Population and 2000-2006 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we examine differences in disability, self-r...
Mate Availability and Unmarried Parent Relationships
Shortage of males Marriage market US Census Unmarried couples Fragile Families study Nonmarital birth
2016/3/18
Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex...
Literacy Gaps by Educational Attainment:A Comparative Study of 19 Countries
literacy skills cross-national variation educational attainment
2016/3/18
Using data of literacy skills among adults aged 26 to 35 from the International Adult Literacy Survey, we compare the degree of literacy gaps between those who completed tertiary education and those w...
Reforms to an Individual Account Pension System and their Effects on Work and Contribution Decisions:The Case of Chile
Pension systems Contributions Individual pension contributions Decision-making Social Protection Survey
2016/3/18
This study evaluates the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution and working decisions. In 1980 Chile was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go s...
How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors:Evidence from Malawi
HIV Testing Results Beliefs MDICP Sexual behavior Disease prevalence Risk Exposure
2016/3/18
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HI...
Natural Symptoms?The Intersection of Social,Biological,and Genetic Determinants of Depression in Later Life
Aging Aged Later Life Biology of Aging Depression Genetic Social Biological Heritability Educational Attainment NAS-NRC Twin Registry of World War II Veterans Socioeconomic Status Disease
2016/3/18
Purpose. This study explores the social, biological, and genetic determinants of depression in later life. It adds complexity to the idea that later life depression is a natural outgrowth of vascular ...
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization:Evidence from Medigap Coverage
Annuitization Health expenditures Health insurance Medigap Risk
2016/3/18
Theoretical research suggests that health expenditure risk can have an ambiguous influence on the annuitization decisions of the elderly. I provide empirical evidence on this linkage, by estimating th...
The Impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Health and Related Outcomes for the Aging in Mexico
Aging Conditional cash transfers Health Mexico
2016/3/18
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission. Whereas nearly all s...