Health

2025 28/04/2026

For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior: An Application to Lockdown Compliance in the United Kingdom

by Gabriella Conti and Pamela Giustinelli

Health Economics (2025)

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Gabriella Conti and Pamela Giustinelli

Keywords: Subjective expectations, Cost-benefit trade-offs, Health behavior, Compliance, COVID-19

2024 16/04/2026

Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand

by Marcella Alsan and Sarah Eichmeyer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2024)

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Marcella Alsan and Sarah Eichmeyer

Keywords: Asymmetric and Private Information, Mechanism Design, National Government Expenditures and Health, Analysis of Health Care Markets, Health Behavior, Health and Inequality, Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants, Non-labor Discrimination

2024 28/04/2026

SeaTE: Subjective ex ante Treatment Effect of Health on Retirement

by Pamela Giustinelli and Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2024)

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Pamela Giustinelli and Matthew D. Shapiro

Keywords: Older workers, Health

2024 17/04/2026

The Allocation of Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations

by Erika Deserranno, Stefano Caria, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Philipp Kastrau

Journal of Political Economy (2024)

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Erika Deserranno, Stefano Caria, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Philipp Kastrau

Keywords: Incentives, Multi-layered organizations, Hierarchies, Effort complementarities, Side payments, Output

2024 17/04/2026

The Impact of NGO-Provided Aid on Government Capacity: Evidence from Uganda

by Erika Deserranno, Aisha Nansamba and Nancy Qian

Journal of the European Economic Association (2024)

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Erika Deserranno, Aisha Nansamba and Nancy Qian

Keywords: Aid efficacy, Government capacity, Labor crowd out, Skilled labor scarcity

2023 16/04/2026

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

by Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Min Jeong Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva and David Yang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2023)

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Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Min Jeong Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva and David Yang

Keywords: Cross-country surveys, Experiment, Liberties, Public health, Redistribution

2023 16/04/2026

Primary Care Providers’ Influence on Opioid Use and Its Adverse Consequences

by Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

Journal of Public Economics (2023)

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Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

Keywords: Practice variation, Primary care, Substance use disorder

2023 27/04/2026

Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal

by Joshua W. Deutschmann, Jared Gars, Jean-François Houde, Molly Lipscomb and Laura Schechter

Journal of Development Economics (2023)

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Joshua W. Deutschmann, Jared Gars, Jean-François Houde, Molly Lipscomb and Laura Schechter

Keywords: Sanitation, Privatization, Urban development

2023 17/04/2026

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India

by Andrea Guariso and Martina Björkman Nyqvist

Journal of Development Economics (2023)

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Andrea Guariso and Martina Björkman Nyqvist

Keywords: COVID-19, School closure, Primary school, Learning loss, Psychological wellbeing, India

2023 16/04/2026

The Macroeconomics of Pandemics around the World: Lives versus Livelihoods Revisited

by Ingvild Almås, Tessa Bold, Tillmann von Carnap, Selene Ghisolfi and Justin Sandefur

Journal of Development Economics (2023)

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Ingvild Almås, Tessa Bold, Tillmann von Carnap, Selene Ghisolfi and Justin Sandefur

Keywords: Containment policies, Coronavirus pandemic, Valuations of life

2022 27/04/2026

Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Stefano Fiorin, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli, Jon M. Jachimowicz

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022)

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Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Stefano Fiorin, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli, Jon M. Jachimowicz

Keywords: Social norms, COVID-19

2022 28/04/2026

HIV, risk, and time preferences: Evidence from a general population sample in Lesotho

by Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Health Economics (2022)

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Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Keywords: Africa, HIV/AIDS, Risk preferences, Time preferences

2022 16/04/2026

Pathways Into Opioid Dependence: Evidence From Practice Variation in Emergency Departments

by Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2022)

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Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

Keywords: Opioids, Prescription drugs, Physician variation, Emergency department, Patient outcomes, Illicit drugs

2022 28/04/2026

Precise or Imprecise Probabilities? Evidence from Survey Response Related to Late-Onset Dementia

by Pamela Giustinelli, Charles F. Manski; Francesca Molinari

Journal of the European Economic Association (2022)

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Pamela Giustinelli, Charles F. Manski; Francesca Molinari

Keywords: Imprecise probabilities, Subjective expectations, Rounding, Late-onset dementia

2022 28/04/2026

Tail and center rounding of probabilistic expectations in the Health and Retirement Study

by Pamela Giustinelli, Charles F. Manski; Francesca Molinari

Journal of Econometrics (2022)

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Pamela Giustinelli, Charles F. Manski; Francesca Molinari

Keywords: Interval data, Subjective probabilities, Survey data

2021 16/04/2026

Do Community Water Sources Provide Safe Drinking Water? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Serena Cocciolo, Selene Ghisolfi, Md Ahasan Habib, S M A Rashid and Anna Tompsett

Keywords: Safe drinking water, Deep tubewells, Bangladesh, Arsenic

2020 27/04/2026

Predicted COVID-19 fatality rates based on age, sex, comorbidities and health system capacity

by Selene Ghisolfi, Ingvild Almås, Justin Sandefur, Tillman von Carnap, Jesse Heitner and Tessa Bold

BMJ Global Health (2020)

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Selene Ghisolfi, Ingvild Almås, Justin Sandefur, Tillman von Carnap, Jesse Heitner and Tessa Bold

Keywords: SARS, Public health, COVID-19, Child, Preschool, Comorbidity, Coronavirus Infections, Female, Health Resources, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Models, Statistical, Pandemics, Pneumonia, Viral, SARS-CoV-2, Young Adult

2019 28/04/2026

Risky sexual behaviours: Biological markers and self-reported data

by Lucia Corno and Aureo de Paula

Economica (2019)

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Lucia Corno and Aureo de Paula

Keywords: Biomarkers, Self-reported data, Sexual behaviours, HIV/AIDS

2018 13/04/2026

Incentivizing Safer Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Lottery Experiment on HIV Prevention

by Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2018)

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Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Keywords: Financial incentives, Lotteries, HIV prevention