Author: Ivy Sun
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Does Access to School-Based Healthcare Reduce Teen Birth Rates and Lead to More High School Completion?
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Research suggests that school-based healthcare reduces teen fertility, but does not substantially reduce high school dropout rates.
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Spend or Save? What to Decide When Faced with Financial Emergencies
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Behavioral interventions aimed at promoting savings may lead to counterproductive consequences. Researchers find that consumers may borrow high-interest debt in favor of preserving low-interest savings. Policies encouraging savings should be coupled with efforts that promote education on appropriate spending of savings.
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Getting a Job: How Certain Characteristics Do (or Don’t) Influence Receiving a Callback
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How does unemployment duration, age, or holding a low-level “interim” job affect the likelihood of receiving a callback from a potential employer?
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Does Medicaid coverage change the prenatal health behaviors of pregnant women?
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Research shows that expanded Medicaid coverage has counterintuitive impacts on prenatal health behaviors, hurting infants’ health.
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Cheap Talk and the Economics of Negotiation
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Empirical research shows that impatient sellers use round numbers to signal their willingness to cut prices in order to sell more quickly.