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Effects of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation
Allison Witman discusses the effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation in the Medicaid population.
O brother, where start thou?
Joshua Goodman discusses evidence that older siblings' college and major choices can significantly influence their younger siblings' college and major choices
Capital and policy impacts on Australian small-scale solar installations
Rohan Best discuses whether capital constraints are evident for uptake of small-scale solar photovoltaic installations, using cross-sectional regressions…
Growth shocks in the United States and China
Lance Fisher discusses the relative impacts of US and Chinese GDP growth shocks on Australia’s growth
The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
Olav Sorenson discusses performance persistence in venture capital
High-Speed Rail Economics, Urbanization and Housing Affordability
Jerry Nickelsburg discusses the impact of the Shinkansen in Japan from 1964 to 2010 under different economic conditions
Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification
Kenneth Lee discusses results from an experiment that randomized the expansion of electric grid infrastructure in rural Kenya
Testing the Golden Rule
Yuan Ju and Jiawen Li discuss an experiment that asks whether people in a strategic situation behave according…
The Tail that Wags the Economy
Julian Kozlowski suggests economic crises produce persistent effects because they scar our beliefs
Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change
Maximillian Auffhammer discusses how economists calculate the social cost of carbon
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