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Which price is right? A comparison of three standard approaches to measuring prices
In: Journal of development economics, Band 163, S. 103106
ISSN: 0304-3878
The Impact of Public Health Sector Stockouts on Private Sector Prices and Access to Healthcare: Evidence from the Anti-Malarial Drug Market
In: Journal of Health Economics, Forthcoming
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When Patients Diagnose: The Effect of Patient Beliefs and Information on Provider Behavior
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 51-72
ISSN: 1539-2988
Shopping While Female: Who Pays Higher Prices and Why?
In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 5, S. 146-149
ISSN: 1944-7981
I estimate gender price discrimination in the Ugandan antimalarial drug market with an audit study. To determine whether results are consistent with statistical or taste-based discrimination, I contrast gender results with results by ethnicity (tribe). Vendors initially offer women prices that are $0.12 (3 percent) higher. However, women are 16 percentage points more likely to successfully bargain for a discount, resulting in no differential in price paid. Results are stronger among majority-tribe females. I find no differences in drug quality. Both women and minorities report better service quality. Offer price differentials suggest statistical discrimination; there is no differential for prices paid.
Igniting The Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 1942-1952
The American system of nuclear weapons research and development was conceived and developed not as a result of technological determinism, but by a number of individual architects who promoted the growth of this large technologically-based complex. While some of the technological artifacts of this system, such as the fission weapons used in World War II, have been the subject of many historical studies, their technical successors -- fusion (or hydrogen) devices -- are representative of the largely unstudied highly secret realms of nuclear weapons science and engineering. In the postwar period a small number of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's staff and affiliates were responsible for theoretical work on fusion weapons, yet the program was subject to both the provisions and constraints of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, of which Los Alamos was a part. The Commission leadership's struggle to establish a mission for its network of laboratories, least of all to keep them operating, affected Los Alamos's leaders' decisions as to the course of weapons design and development projects. Adapting Thomas P. Hughes's "large technological systems" thesis, I focus on the technical, social, political, and human problems that nuclear weapons scientists faced while pursuing the thermonuclear project, demonstrating why the early American thermonuclear bomb project was an immensely complicated scientific and technological undertaking. I concentrate mainly on Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Theoretical, or T, Division, and its members' attempts to complete an accurate mathematical treatment of the "Super" -- the most difficult problem in physics in the postwar period -- and other fusion weapon theories. Although tackling a theoretical problem, theoreticians had to address technical and engineering issues as well. I demonstrate the relative value and importance of H-bomb research over time in the postwar era to scientific, politician, and military participants in this project. I analyze how and when participants in the H-bomb project recognized both blatant and subtle problems facing the project, how scientists solved them, and the relationship this process had to official nuclear weapons policies. Consequently, I show how the practice of nuclear weapons science in the postwar period became an extremely complex, technologically-based endeavor. ; Ph. D.
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Childcare Matters: Female Business Owners and the Baby-Profit Gap
In: Management Science (Forthcoming)
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Health insurance transitions and use of fringe banks: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
In: Contemporary economic policy: a journal of Western Economic Association International, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 557-572
ISSN: 1465-7287
AbstractThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased health insurance enrollment, potentially improving financial security. We test whether this insurance increase relates to changes in use of "fringe banks" (e.g., payday lenders, check cashers, and pawn shops). Using the panel structure of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we link 5 years of a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)‐sponsored supplement to March CPS data. We find declines in fringe bank use, specifically fringe credit (e.g., pawn loans), associated with new insurance coverage with larger declines for households affected by the ACA's Medicaid expansion. These results suggest that health insurance reduces reliance on these controversial financial products.
"It's a Win-Win Situation" – Intergenerational Learning in Preschool and Elder Care Settings: An Irish Perspective: Practice
In: Journal of intergenerational relationships: programs, policy, and research, Band 16, Heft 1-2, S. 26-44
ISSN: 1535-0932
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Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana
In: Journal of development effectiveness, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 31-42
ISSN: 1943-9407
Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana
In: Journal of development effectiveness, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 31-42
ISSN: 1943-9407
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Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa
In: NBER Working Paper No. w28316
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