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Love and Money by Parental Matchmaking: Evidence from Urban Couples in China
Parental Matchmaking Urban Couples
2015/9/21
Marriage formation is often modeled as a matching process where males and females
meet randomly or via commercial agents (Weiss 1997). This approach omits a unique feature of
marriage, that is, no...
The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the SIPP
Household Outcomes SIPP
2015/9/21
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate the impact that
child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) enrollment has on household outcomes including poverty,
...
The Association between Spousal Gender Based Violence and Women’s Empowerment among Currently Married Women aged 15-49 in Zimba- bwe: Evidence from the 2010-11 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey
Spousal violence Emotional violence
2015/7/27
In Zimbabwe, levels of spousal Gender-Based Violence (GBV) remain a health, human rights and development concern. The main objective of this study was to investigate the association between spousal GB...
Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration
Health care spending regional variation Dartmouth Atlas
2015/7/17
We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand
and supply factors....
Why Do Inventors Sell to Patent Trolls? Experimental Evidence for the Asymmetry Hypothesis
Patent Trolls Asymmetry Hypothesis
2015/7/15
Why do individual patent holders assign their patents to “trolls” rather than license their
technologies directly to manufacturers or assert them through litigation? We explore the
hypothesis that...
The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
sex ratios mating competition entrepreneurship Taiwan
2015/1/22
We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test the economic consequences of excess men. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young male...
New Evidence on the Impact of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its Implications for Rural Primary Healthcare: Multivariate Difference-in-difference Analysis
New Evidence China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme its Implications for Rural Primary Healthcare Multivariate Difference-in-difference Analysis
2014/3/13
Objectives: To determine whether China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), which aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions in rural primary c...
Household Expenditures, Child Anthropometric Status and the Intrahousehold Division of Income: Evidence from the Côte d'Ivoire
Household Expenditures Child Anthropometric Status
2014/3/24
Household Expenditures, Child Anthropometric Status and the Intrahousehold Division of Income: Evidence from the Côte d'Ivoire。
Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence?: Evidence from Expansions to Castle Doctrine
Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime Escalate Violence Evidence Expansions Castle Doctrine
2016/3/9
From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed so-called “Castle Doctrine” or “stand your ground” laws. These laws expand the legal justification for the use of lethal force in self-defense, thereby lo...
Prenatal Sex Selection and Missing Girls in China: Evidence from the Diffusion of Diagnostic Ultrasound
Prenatal Sex Selection Missing Girls China Evidence Diffusion Diagnostic Ultrasound
2016/3/9
How much of the increase in sex ratio (male to female) at birth since the early 1980s in China is attributed to increased prenatal sex selection? This question is addressed by exploiting the different...
Determinants of Saving among Low-Income Individuals in Rural Uganda: Evidence from Assets Africa
Saving Sub-Saharan Africa Rural Uganda Theory Asset Building Institutional Theory
2013/1/31
Although research has shown that poor people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including those living in rural areas save, little is known about the factors that influence saving and asset accumulation amo...
How Do Network Size, Voluntary Association, and Trust Affect Civic Engagement? Evidence from the Asian Barometer Survey
Civic Engagement Network Size Social Trust Voluntary Organization Asia
2013/1/31
This study examines the role of social capital in shaping the individual likelihood of “civic engagement” defined specifically as informal and formal political participation. Based on a subset of the ...
Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa
Minimum wage informal sector Africa
2014/3/25
What happens when a previously uncovered labor market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law
to identify increases in w...
Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care
Induced Innovation Social Inequality Evidence Infant Medical Care
2016/3/9
We develop a model of induced innovation that applies to medical research. Our model yields three empirical predictions. First, initial death rates and subsequent research effort should be positively ...
New Evidence of the Causal Effect of Family Size on Child Quality in a Developing Country
New Evidence Causal Effect Family Size Child Quality Developing Country
2016/3/9
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes amo...