Resource Flows Among Three Generations in Guatemala: Supplementary Analysis and Data Collection
Principal Investigator(s): Behrman, Jere
Aims:
To examine interactions among three
generations in Guatemala using unusually rich longitudinal data over 35 years that will
increase the research productivity of an existing project through added data collection that is not already
funded by the existing project
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Body Capital and Socioeconomic Mobility
Principal Investigator(s): Chang, Virginia
Aims:
To determine the cross-sectional relationships between weight status and SES/class and conduct cross-cohort comparisons to evaluate secular shifts in the relationship over time
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HIV/AIDS and Complete Sexual and Social Networks in Rural Malawi
Principal Investigator(s): Kohler, Hans-Peter
Aims:
To examine empirically the population-level structure of sexual networks and explore the role they may play in fostering the spread of HIV as well as in explaining the discrepancies observed between indicators of sexual behavior and epidemic outcomes
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HIV/AIDS and Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi
Principal Investigator(s): Kohler, Hans-Peter
Aims:
To apply existing and develop new models of intergenerational and inter vivos transfers to explain motivations for such transfers in a high HIV prevalance county and to investigate whether transfers differ by households that are and are not affected by AIDS
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Trust and Transfers in South Africa: Linking Survey with Experimental Data
Principal Investigator(s): Kohler, Hans-Peter
Aims:
Tto uncover the motivations underlying transfers by examining transfers patterns derived from experimental economics games combined with data derived from survey and qualitative interviews
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Understanding Pension Literacy
Principal Investigator(s): Mitchell, Olivia
Aims:
To evaluate what Chileans do and do not know about their retirement system after
two decades of the new program, and, to the extent that current participants and potential participants prove
under- or mis-informed, to learn what aspects of the plan seem particularly difficult to fathom and what might be
done to correct the lack of information and/or misinformation
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Anticipated Regret and the Disposition Effect
Principal Investigator(s): Muermann, Alexander
Aims:
To examine the dynamic effects of price fluctuations on trading
behavior when investors are averse toward anticipated regret
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Factors Responsible for the Changing Sex Differentials in Mortality at Older Ages in the United States
Principal Investigator(s): Preston, Samuel
Aims:
To seek explanations of the recent poor performance of mortality among older women in
the United States, relative both to older men and to women in previous eras
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The Causal Impact of Education on Income Volatility
Principal Investigator(s): Shore, Stephen
Aims:
To exploit the panel feature of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to
estimate income volatility directly for many individuals
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Effects of School Vouchers on Education and Earning
Principal Investigator(s): Todd, Petra
Aims:
To develop a behavioral model of decisions about schooling and work, prepare
datasets, and do some preliminary data analysis
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Public Dissemination of Primary Qualitative Data from The Social Network and HIV study in Malawi
Principal Investigator(s): Watkins, Susan
Aims:
To further the public dissemination of primary
qualitative data to other researchers by using the Malawi project data to set a standard and by
collaboration with ICPSR to promote the development of new software and/or technology to
facilitate the process of anonymizing qualitative data
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The Impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill
Principal Investigator(s): Wolpin, Kenneth
Aims:
To fill a gap by quantifying the effects of the policy change on
the general health status, life expectancy, and medical care consumption of Medicare beneficiaries
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