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Sangaramoorthy Op-Ed links racial and immigrant justice movements
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Sought-for freedoms require action in both domains, she says
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Alok Bhargava featured in Financial Times on Climate Change
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Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it
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Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it
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Alok Bhargava responds to Desmond Tutu's Comparison of Climate Change as Developed Countries' "Climate Apartheid" On the Poor
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Selected Research
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Philip Cohen comments on the rising co-living arrangements
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Sharing households seems to be the solution facing rising housing costs in Miami
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Trust and cooperative behavior: Evidence from the realm of data-sharing
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Trust is praised by many social scientists as the foundation of functioning social systems owing to its assumed connection to cooperative behavior. The existence of such a link is still subject to debate. In the present study, we first highlight important conceptual issues within this debate. Second, we examine previous evidence, highlighting several issues. Third, we present findings from an original experiment, in which we tried to identify a “real” situation that allowed us to measure both trust and cooperation. People’s expectations and behavior when they decide to share (or not) their data represents such a situation, and we make use of corresponding data. We found that there is no relationship between trust and cooperation. This non-relationship may be rationalized in different ways which, in turn, provides important lessons for the study of the trust—behavior nexus beyond the particular situation we study empirically.
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MPRC People
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Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D.
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Frauke Kreuter Publications
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Conrad Hackett and Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center
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How demography is reshaping the global religious landscape
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Coming Up
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Michael White, Brown University
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Migration, Urbanization, and Health: Insights from South Africa
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Coming Up
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International organizations and the political economy of reforms
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We develop a simple dynamic model of policy reform that captures some of the determinants that underlie the differences between the reform paths taken by a number of countries since the early 1990s. The model focuses on the interaction between domestic institutions and international organizations that promote reform, on the one hand, and the political incentives for reversing reforms, on the other. At equilibrium, there are three types of reform paths. A country can undergo a full-scale, lasting reform, can carry out a partial but lasting reform, or can go through cycles of reforms and costly counter-reforms. Domestic institutions, along with the incentives provided by international organizations, determine the equilibrium path. A politically myopic international organization may induce cycles of reforms and costly counter-reforms, thereby reducing the country's well-being. An international organization that only provides funds to promote reforms may have a less beneficial effect than one that assists the country with fresh funds to defend reforms when there is a risk of reversal. International funds that promote reforms can also influence domestic institutions. For example, due to the intervention of an international organization, countries could have incentives to dismantle institutions that build up reversal cost and/or do not fully build their fiscal capacity.
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Sebastian Galiani, Ph.D.
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Sebastian Galiani Publications
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Medicaid Benefit Generosity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid Adult Vision Benefits
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This paper examines whether Medicaid adult vision coverage affects labor market activity using state-by-year changes to these benefits.We find that vision benefits increase hours worked and occupational skill requirements, but no consistent evidence of changes on the extensive employment margin. Intensive margin effects could be facilitated by decreased barriers to transportation - when a state covers vision services, beneficiaries are more likely to commute to work by car or motorcycle rather than other modes. Our study suggests that, conditional on eligibility, Medicaid can have a positive effect on labor market activity by expanding access to services that enable work. JEL codes:I13, I18, J22, H75. Link to online-before-print version
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Michel Boudreaux, Ph.D.
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Michel Boudreaux Publications
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Philip Cohen comments on birth rate anxiety
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Less Sex, Fewer Babies, Blame - no, wait . . .
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