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The effect of adolescent experience on labor market outcomes: the case of height

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N Persico, A Postlewaite… - 2004 - nber.org
Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the
disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an
individual's height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen ...
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Sources of advantageous selection: Evidence from the Medigap insurance market

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H Fang, MP Keane… - 2006 - nber.org
We provide strong evidence of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market,
and analyze its sources. Using Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data, we find
that, conditional on controls for the price of Medigap, medical expenditures for senior ...
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TIME‐INCONSISTENCY AND WELFARE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE NLSY*

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H Fang… - International Economic Review, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We empirically implement a dynamic structural model of labor supply and welfare program
participation for agents with potentially time-inconsistent preferences. Using panel data on
the choices of single women with children from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY) ...
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STREET CRIME AND STREET CULTURE*

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D Silverman - International Economic Review, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A model shows how reputation concerns can support widespread street crime, a street
culture, where the direct incentives for such behavior are weak. There are social benefits to
street reputations, but those benefits are dominated when reputation concerns draw into ...
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[CITATION] Reconstructing Europe after the Great War

DP Silverman - 1982 - getcited.org
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[CITATION] Reluctant Union: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

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Estimating life-cycle parameters from consumption behavior at retirement

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J Laitner… - 2005 - nber.org
ABSTRACT Using pseudo-panel data, we estimate the structural parameters of a life--cycle
consumption model with discrete labor supply choice. A focus of our analysis is the abrupt
drop in consumption upon retirement for a typical household. The literature sometimes ...
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Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions

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A Khwaja, D Silverman… - Journal of Health Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time
preference, and choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our analysis, we elicit
rates of time discount from choices in financial and health domains. We also examine the ...
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[BOOK] Hitler's economy: Nazi work creation programs, 1933-1936

DP Silverman - 1998 - books.google.com
... the Third Reich. Dan Silverman focuses on Nazi direct work cre- ation programs,
utilizing rich archival sources to trace the development and implementation of these
programs at the regional and local level. He rigorously evaluates ...
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On the compassion of time-limited welfare programs

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H Fang… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Supporters of recent welfare reforms argue that time limits and other eligibility restrictions
serve recipients. We present a simple model of agents with present-biased preferences to
investigate the theoretical validity of this claim. We first identify four types of outcome that ...
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Social isolation and inequality

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A Postlewaite… - Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005 - Springer
Abstract There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related
concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine
the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects ...
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A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany

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DP Silverman - Central European History, 1970 - Cambridge Univ Press
Page 1. A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany DAN P.
SILVERMAN IF every German had had his own home," wrote the National Social-
ist Karl Fiehler in 1932, "the revolution of 1918 would not have ...
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Factions and Political Competition

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N Persico, JC Rodríguez-Pueblita… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper presents a new model of political competition where candidates belong to
factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local
constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications ...
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Consumption commitments and employment contracts

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A Postlewaite, L Samuelson… - The Review of …, 2008 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be
reduced by making commitments that reduce flexibility. We show that such consumption
commitments can induce consumers with risk-neutral underlying utility functions to be risk ...
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Consumption, Commitmants and Preferences for Risk

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A Postlewaite, L Samuelson… - 2004 - nber.org
We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be reduced by
making commitments to consumption levels independent of the state. For example, it is
cheaper to produce housing services via owner-occupied than rented housing, but the ...
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Testing the mechanisms of structural models: The case of the mickey mantle effect

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H Fang, M Keane, A Khwaja, M Salm… - The American economic …, 2007 - JSTOR
A well-known method of validating econometric models (structural or otherwise) is to
examine their performance in out-of-sample prediction. That is, given a change in the policy
environment, do the key endogenous variables of the model move in ways that are in ...
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Are mature smokers misinformed?

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A Khwaja, D Silverman, F Sloan… - Journal of health economics, 2009 - Elsevier
While there are many reasons to continue to smoke in spite of its consequences for health,
the concern that many smoke because they misperceive the risks of smoking remains a
focus of public discussion and motivates tobacco control policies and litigation. In this ...
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[PDF] Consumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the E ciency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers

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J Laitner… - Ann Arbor, 2006 - nber.org
Abstract This paper analyzes the e&ect on individuals' retirement and consumption choices
of a potential reform to the US Social Security system. We first estimate the parameters of a
life—cycle model. We assume intratemporally nonseparable preference orderings and the ...
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Smoking, wealth accumulation and the propensity to plan

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A Khwaja, D Silverman, F Sloan… - Economics Letters, 2007 - Elsevier
We investigate the relationship between wealth, smoking, and individual propensities to
plan. Planning propensity affects wealth but not smoking, suggesting that planning is not an
all-purpose skill. Financial planning may draw on different abilities than those that ...
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Nazification of the German Bureaucracy Reconsidered: A Case Study

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DP Silverman - The Journal of Modern History, 1988 - JSTOR
Page 1. Nazification of the German Bureaucracy Reconsidered: A Case Study* Dan P. Silverman
Pennsylvania State University Hitler's assumption of the German chancellorship on January 30,
1933 initiated a process that Dietrich Orlow has labeled "partification," the ...
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Consumption, retirement, and Social Security: Evaluating the efficiency of reform with a life-cycle model

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J Laitner… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of a potential reform to the Social Security system on
individuals' retirement and consumption choices. We first estimate the coefficients for a life-
cycle model. We assume intratemporally nonseparable preference orderings and ...
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[PDF] Measuring time-inconsistency: Evidence from work-welfare decisions in the NLSY

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H Fang… - Unpublished manuscript, Department of …, 2004 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper applies a model of potentially time-inconsistent preferences to the
problem of dynamic labor supply and welfare program participation. From panel data on the
choices of single women with children, we provide estimates of the degree of time- ...
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Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions

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A Khwaja, D Silverman… - 2006 - nber.org
This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time
preference, and intertemporal choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our
analysis, we elicit rates of time discount from choices in financial and health domains. We ...
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Who is (more) Rational?

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S Choi, S Kariv, W Müller… - 2011 - nber.org
Revealed preference theory offers a criterion for decision-making quality: if decisions are
high quality then there exists a utility function that the choices maximize. We conduct a large-
scale field experiment that enables us to test subjects' choices for consistency with utility ...
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Political Catholicism and Social Democracy in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1914

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DP Silverman - The Catholic Historical Review, 1966 - JSTOR
Page 1. POLITICAL CATHOLICISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN ALSACE-
LORRAINE, 1871-1914 By Dan P. Silverman* After the German annexation of
Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, the Catholic clergy emerged as one of the ...
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Fantasy and reality in Nazi work-creation programs, 1933-1936

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DP Silverman - The Journal of Modern History, 1993 - JSTOR
Page 1. Fantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936* Dan
P. Silverman Pennsylvania State University During 1933 and 1934, Hitler's National
Socialist government achieved what have been described ...
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[CITATION] Are Smokers Misinformed? Evidence on Subjective Beliefs about Mortality and Health

A Khwaja, D Silverman, F Sloan… - 2006 - … of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (5), …
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[PDF] Revising Commitments: Time Preference and Time Inconsistency in the Field

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X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - cega.berkeley.edu
Abstract A new interest in intertemporal choice is fueled by evidence of non% constant time
discounting and a much better understanding of its theoretical consequences. This paper
reports the results of a field experiment in rural Malawi designed to evaluate, directly, the ...
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[CITATION] sWillpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges, tforthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association

E Ozdenoren, S Salant… - 2009
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[CITATION] nWho Is (More) Rational? oMimeo

S Choi, S Kariv, W Muller… - University of Michigan, 2010
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[PDF] Distinguishing Between Cognitive Biases: Belief vs. Time Discounting in Welfare Program Participation

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H Fang… - … Public Finance, edited by Edward J. …, 2006 - public.econ.duke.edu
Abstract As economists introduce more and more cognitive biases into economic models, an
important question is whether we can distinguish these biases empirically. We present a
simple model of welfare program participation that nests two well&documented cognitive ...
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[PDF] Social Security Reform: Changing Incentives for when to Retire

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J Laitner… - annual meeting of the American Economic …, 2006 - aeaweb.org
Although American longevity is increasing, over the last 50 years male retirement ages in
the US have generally moved downward, if at all. One explanation for this pair of facts is that
leisure is a luxury good so that demand for it rises with living standards. Another is that ...
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[CITATION] VNon% Cognitive Skills

A Postlewaite… - Social Success, and Labor Market Outcomes, V, 2006
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[CITATION] forthcoming. Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges

E Ozdenoren, S Salant… - Journal of the European Economic Association
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Distinguishing between cognitive biases

H Fang… - Behavioral public finance, 2006 - books.google.com
ECONOMISTS have recently taken increased interest in a number of cognitive biases and
heuristics first documented by psychologists. 1 In theoretical studies, economists typically
introduce such biases and heuristics into stylized models with a goal of understanding ...
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[CITATION] Consumption Commitments and Preferences for Risk

P Andrew, L Samuelson… - 2004 - mimeo, May
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[CITATION] March 2005.“Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement.”

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[CITATION] nEstimating LifepCycle Parameters from Con& sumption Behavior at Retirement

J Laitner… - 2005 - oNBER working paper 11163
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[CITATION] QTime Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Ev idence from the NLSY, R 2oo4

H Fang… - Cowles Foundation Discussion …
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[PDF] Consumption and Retirement: Evaluating Social Security Reform with a Life–cycle Model

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J Laitner… - Ann Arbor, 2006 - aida.wss.yale.edu
Abstract This paper estimates the parameters of a life–cycle model in order to evaluate the
effect of (a potential reform of) the Social Security system on retirement and consumption
choices. We assume intratemporally nonseparable preference orderings and endogenous ...
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[PDF] Other-Regarding Behavior: Theories and Evidence

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N Persico… - University of Pennsylvania, 2006 - economics.sas.upenn.edu
Abstract We use field data on traffic behavior to test and refine existing models of “other-
regarding behavior;” that is, behavior that meets social or civic obligations despite the lack of
material incentives to do so. We find that existing models relying on methodological ...
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[PDF] Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle

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J Laitner… - 2004 - Citeseer
Abstract Using pseudo-panel data, we estimate the structural parameters of a life—cycle
consumption model with discrete labor supply choice. A focus of our analysis is the abrupt
drop in consumption upon retirement for a typical household. The literature sometimes ...
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Reluctant Union: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871–1918

DP Silverman, RV Pierard - History: Reviews of New Books, 1973 - Taylor & Francis
Page 1. She was equally chary of enlightened 130 despotism. De Stael was, then,
a liberal, but a shrewd as well as hopeful one, with faith in the future. Her political
writings manifest both her perceptivity concerning the workings ...
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The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

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DP Silverman - Central European History, 1971 - Cambridge Univ Press
Page 1. The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial
Germany, 1871-1918 DAN P. SILVERMAN* GERMANY'S annexation of
Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 was a . relatively s'mple operation; it took ...
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[PDF] Crime and Early Retirement Among Older Americans

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D Silverman… - 2004 - parc.pop.upenn.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between local crime rates and the
retirement decisions of older Americans. We do so by linking data from the Health and
Retirement Study with measures of local crime patterns taken from the Federal Bureau of ...
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The effect of adolescent experience on labor market outcomes: The case of height, Third Version

N Persico, A Postlewaite… - Ann Arbor, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background,
the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an
individual's height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen ...
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[HTML] Your Brain After Chemo

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D Silverman… - group, 2011 - awomanshealth.com
You're halfway through what will be six rounds of chemotherapy, and you begin to feel as
though a fog has enveloped your mind. You grow forgetful. Making even the smallest
decision seems overwhelming. Multitasking has become impossible—you're lucky if you ...
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[PDF] Revising Commitments: Field Experimental Evidence on Determinants of Intertemporal Plan Revisions

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X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - mfi.uchicago.edu
Abstract Failures to carry out intertemporal plans can have important welfare consequences.
We shed light on the determinants of intertemporal plan revision via a lab&in&the&field
experiment in rural Malawi with large real stakes. We make two key contributions. First, we ...
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[PDF] Factions and Political Competition

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N Persico, JCR Pueblita… - Journal of Political …, 2011 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract This paper presents a new model of political competition where candidates belong
to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local
constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications ...
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Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement

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J Laitner… - Ann Arbor, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: After dropping for a century, the average retirement age for US males seems to
have leveled off in recent decades. An important question is whether as future improvements
in technology cause wages to rise, desired retirement ages will resume their downward ...
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[PDF] Validating Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement

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J Laitner… - Ann Arbor, 2007 - mrrc.isr.umich.edu
Abstract This paper provides a method for validating, and distinguishing between, different
lifecycle models of consumption and labor supply. We derive qualitative predic-tions for two
prominent life-cycle model formulations–having non-separable and separable in ...
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Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts, Second Version

A Postlewaite, L Samuelson… - Ann Arbor - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be
reduced by making commitments that reduce flexibility. We show that such consumption
commitments can induce consumers with risk-neutral underlying utility functions to be risk ...

[CITATION] Time-inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY (preliminary)

H Fang… - 2003
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[CITATION] The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: B

N Persico, A Postlewaite, DP Silverman… - 2004 - University of Pennsylvania
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Social Isolation and Inequality, Second Version

A Postlewaite… - PIER Working Paper No. 05-001, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: There is an increasing interest in the concept of social exclusion and the related
concept of social isolation and their potential role in understanding inequality. We examine
the degree to which voluntary separation from social activities during adolescence affects ...
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[PDF] Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on Adjustment of Prior Choices

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X Giné, J Goldberg, D Silverman… - 2011 - econweb.umd.edu
Abstract Failures to carry out intertemporal plans can have important welfare consequences.
We shed light on the determinants of intertemporal plan revision via a lab'in'the'field
experiment in rural Malawi with large real stakes. We make two key contributions. First, we ...
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[PDF] Intra-Party Conflict and Political Budget Cycles: Theory and Evidence

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N Persico, JCR Pueblita… - 2006 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract This paper presents a new model of a political budget cycle. Motivated by
quantitative and qualitative evidence from Mexico, we explain a cycle as the result of intra-
party politics under democratic/bureacratic constraints. In our model, the leadership of a ...
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[PDF] Crime and Early Retirement Among Older Americans

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D Silverman… - knowledge-stage.wharton.upenn. …
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between local crime rates and the
retirement decisions of older Americans. We do so by linking data from the Health and
Retirement Study with measures of local crime patterns taken from the Federal Bureau of ...
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[BOOK] Your Brain After Chemo: A Practical Guide to Lifting the Fog and Getting Back Your Focus

D Silverman… - 2010 - books.google.com
Chemotherapy saves lives, but new studiesincluding research led by coauthor Dr. Dan
Silvermanreveal that the agents used to kill cancer cells may also impair normal brain
function. Even years after treatment people have reported problems with memory, ...
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