Research

Reset

Pages

Title
Author(s)
Year

A Sparse Decomposition of Democracy and Trade

John Londregan
2016
Do trading partners’ political institutions matter in international trade? In answering this question, researchers typically relate aggregate measures of institutional structure with total volumes of bilateral trade, while pairs that do not trade are ...

Why Are Community Development Lenders Financing Charter Schools?

2016
January, 2016 2016: Rubin, J. and K. Nelson. Why Are Community Development Lenders Financing Charter Schools? Shelterforce, Winter 2015-16 Education Domestic and Social Policy Education charter schools Community Development Financial Institutions External ...

Using Vignettes to Rethink Latino-white Disparities in Self-rated Health

2016
Researchers often rely on respondents'  self-rated   health  (SRH) to measure social  disparities  in  health, but recent studies suggest that systematically different reporting styles across groups can yield misleading conclusions about  disparities ...

Highlighting Consensus Among Medical Scientists Increases Public Support for Vaccines: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

2015
Sander van der Linden December, 2015 BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1207. Education Health Psychology Science Science and Technology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File External Link ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Socially Shared Retrieval-Induced Forgetting of Medical Information

Alin Coman
2015
ABSTRACT:  When speakers selectively retrieve previously learned information, listeners often concurrently, and covertly, retrieve their memories of that information. This concurrent retrieval typically enhances memory for mentioned information (the ...

Financial Entropy and the Optimality of Over-Regulation

Alan Blinder
2015
One frequently hears, often as a complaint, about the financial regulatory “pendulum” swinging too far in one direction or the other—from excessively tight regulation to excessively lax, and vice versa. My concern in this paper is precisely with those ...

Multiplying Diversity: Family Unification and the Regional Origins of Late-Age Immigrants, 1981-2009

Marta Tienda
2015
We use administrative data about new legal permanent residents to show how family unification chain migration changed both the age and regional origin of US immigrants. Between 1981 and 1995, every 100 initiating immigrants from Asia sponsored between 220 ...

Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century

Anne Case
Sir Angus Deaton
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper documents a marked increase in the all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States between 1999 and 2013. This change reversed decades of progress in mortality and was unique to the United ...

On Tyrannical Experts and Expert Tyrants

Sir Angus Deaton
2015
Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts is a paean to freedom, democracy, and the rights of the poor. It rightly damns the “technological illusion” that development is an engineering problem, not a political problem that cannot be solved by experts, particularly ...

Inequality, climate impacts on the future poor, and carbon prices

Marc Fleurbaey
2015
ABSTRACT:  Integrated assessment models of climate and the economy provide estimates of the social cost of carbon and inform climate policy. We create a variant of the Regional Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE)—a regionally disaggregated ...

Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences

Marc Fleurbaey
2015
In this paper, we study interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing. We show that using subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels can be in conflict with individuals' judgments about their own lives. We propose therefore an alternative wellbeing measure in terms ...

The tyranny puzzle in social preferences: an empirical investigation

Marc Fleurbaey
2015
When forming their preferences about the distribution of income, rational people may be caught between two opposite forms of “tyranny.” Giving absolute priority to the worst-off imposes a sort of tyranny on the rest of the population, but giving less than ...

Quantifying the value of biomarkers for predicting mortality

Noreen Goldman
2015
In light of widespread interest in the prognostic value of biomarkers, we apply three discrimination measures to evaluate the incremental value of biomarkers—beyond self-reported measures—for predicting all-cause mortality. We assess whether all three ...

Return Migration to Mexico: Does Health Matter?

Noreen Goldman
2015
We use data from three rounds of the Mexican Family Life Survey to examine whether migrants in the United States returning to Mexico in the period 2005–2012 have worse health than those remaining in the United States. Despite extensive interest by ...

Shorter Ends, Faster End? Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mortality Among Older Taiwanese

Noreen Goldman
2015
Recent studies have found mixed results regarding the association between leukocyte telomere length (LTL)-- thought to be a marker of cellular aging-- and all-cause mortality. Some studies have reported a significant inverse relationship, but others have ...

Talking Up and Talking Down: The Power of Positive Speaking

Susan Fiske
2015
Consistent with Lewin's legacy and SPSSI's traditions, out work has focused on inequality and power dynamics between people. Drawing on interpersonal positivity biases, stereotype content emphasizing perceived warmth and competence, and on the ...

Quantifying the risk of pandemic influenza virus evolution by mutation and re-assortment

Bryan Grenfell
2015
Large outbreaks of zoonotic influenza A virus (IAV) infections may presage an influenza pandemic. However, the likelihood that an airborne-transmissible variant evolves upon zoonotic infection or co-infection with zoonotic and seasonal IAVs remains poorly ...

After Hegemony Cooperation is Still Possible

Robert Keohane
2015
The rejoinder by Prof. Keohane can be accessed via the external link. The attached paper, After Hegemony: Transatlantic Economic Relations in the Next Decade (Download File), which appeared in The International Spectator in January 1984, previewed many of ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

Pages