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This paper evaluates an experiment in which individuals in rural Malawiwere randomly assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results afterbeing tested. Distance to the HIV results centers was also randomly assigned.Without any incentive, 34 percent of the participants learned their HIV results.However, even the smallest incentive doubled that share. Using the randomlyassigned incentives and distance from results centers as instruments for theknowledge of HIV status, sexually active HIV-positive individuals who learnedtheir results are three times more likely to purchase condoms two months laterthan sexually active HIV-positive individuals who did not learn their results;however, HIV-positive individuals who learned their results purchase only twoadditional condoms than those who did not. There is no significant effect oflearning HIV-negative status on the purchase of condoms. (JEL I12, O15)
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We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantlingthe License Raj—a system of central controls regulating entry and productionactivity in this sector—vary across Indian states with different labor marketregulations. The effects are found to be unequal across Indian states with differentlabor market regulations. In particular, following delicensing, industrieslocated in states with pro-employer labor market institutions grew more quicklythan those in pro-worker environments. (JEL J50, L52,L60, O14, O15, O25)
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We report evidence that Bitnet adoption facilitated increased research collaboration between US universities. However, not all institutions benefited equally. Using panel data from seven top engineering journals, Bitnet connection records, and institution ranking data, we find that middle-tier universities were the primary beneficiaries; they benefited largely by increasing their collaboration with top-tier schools. Furthermore, we find that the magnitude of this effect is greatest for co-located pairs. Thus, the advent of Bitnet – and likely of subsequent networks – seems to have increased the role of middle-tier universities as producers of new knowledge in the national innovation system. (JEL D85, I23, O31, O33)
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This paper studies the life-cycle labor supply of three cohorts of Americanwomen, born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. We focus on the increase in laborsupply of mothers between the 1940s and 1950s cohorts. We construct a lifecyclemodel of female participation and savings, and calibrate the model tomatch the behavior of the middle cohort. We investigate which changes in thedeterminants of labor supply account for the increases in participation early inthe life-cycle observed for the youngest cohort. A combination of a reductionin the cost of children alongside a reduction in the wage-gender gap is needed.(JEL D91, J16, J22, J31)
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Based on recent neuroscience evidence, we model the brain as a dual-systemorganization subject to three conflicts: asymmetric information, temporal horizon,and incentive salience. Under the first and second conflicts, we show thatthe uninformed system imposes a positive link between consumption and laborat every period. Furthermore, decreasing impatience endogenously emergesas a consequence of these two conflicts. Under the first and third conflicts, itbecomes optimal to set a consumption cap. Finally, we discuss the behavioralimplications of these rules for choice bracketing and expense tracking, and forconsumption over the life cycle. (JEL D11, D74, D82, D87, D91)
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By considering a model with identical firms, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution between goods magnifies the impact of trade barriers on trade flows. In this paper, I introduce firm heterogeneity in a simple model of international trade. I prove that the extensive margin and the intensive margin are affected by the elasticity of substitution in exact opposite directions. When the distribution of productivity across firms is Pareto, the predictions of the Krugman model with representative firms are overturned: the impact of trade barriers on trade flows is dampened by the elasticity of substitution, and not magnified. (JEL F12, F13)
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Anne Case et al. (2002), using cross-sectional data, found a positiverelationship between children's health and income, with income's protectiveeffect increasing with age. Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (2003), using apanel of Canadian children, found that low- and high-SES children respondsimilarly to health shocks, but the low-SES children are subject to moreshocks as they age. Our study examines this relationship using panel datafor US children. We find some support for the latter result of Currie andStabile but also evidence that low- and high-SES children responddifferently to specific health shocks. (JEL D31, I12, J13)
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Since Schelling, it has often been assumed that players make use of salientdecision labels to achieve coordination. Consistent with previous work, we findthat given equal payoffs, salient labels yield frequent coordination. However,given even minutely asymmetric payoffs, labels lose much of their effectivenessand miscoordination abounds. This raises questions about the extent to whichthe effectiveness of focal points based on label salience persists beyond thespecial case of symmetric games. The patterns of miscoordination we observevary with the magnitude of payoff differences in intricate ways that suggestnonequilibrium accounts based on "level-k" thinking and "team reasoning."(JEL C72, C92)
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Language is a powerful coordination device. We generalize the cheap-talkapproach to pre-play communication by way of introducing a meaning correspondencebetween messages and actions, and by postulating two axiomsmet by natural languages. Players have a lexicographic preference, second tomaterial payoffs, against deviating from the meaning correspondence. Undertwo-sided communication in generic and symmetric nxn-coordination games,a Nash equilibrium component in such a lexicographic communication game isevolutionarily stable if and only if it results in the unique Pareto efficient outcomeof the underlying game. We extend the analysis to one-sided communicationin arbitrary finite two-player games. (JEL C72, C73, Z13)
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