Within a …eld experiment, I present a treatment group with reductions in information, administrative, stigma and procrastination costs associated with the Advance EITC. The treatment only increases Advance participation from 0.3 to 1.2 percent. Another treatment simultaneously encourages 401(k) savings, increasing 401(k) participation from 46 to 50 percent. However, there is no additional incre...

1 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, UMR-S975; Inserm, U975, CNRS, UMR 7225, 75013 Paris, France 2 Centre national de référence des démences rares, 75013 Paris, France 3 Université Lyon I; Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS UMR5229; Service de Neurologie C, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, 69500 Bron, Fra...

In the past, the Baltic became seriously contaminated by organochlorines (1). The most dramatic increase occurred in the levels of the 2 major organochlorines, namely dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) occurred after 1955 (2). A rapid decrease in concentrations of DDT compounds started during the beginning of the 1970s, whereas concentrations of PCB compou...

ABSTRACT The objective of the study investigates the effects of health on changing labor force participation during Pakistan's economic transition in the 1980s, a period of several economic liberalization and international integration on the health and financial sectors. The study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co-integration technique to estimate the short- and long-run ela...

We present descriptive statistics on pension participation and types of pensions among married couples, using data from the 1996/2008 Panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Social Security administrative records. Previous research has focused on pension coverage by marital status, but has not examined couples as a unit. Because couples usually share income, viewing them as...

Previous studies have suggested that excessive losses of FVC and FEV1 were occurring in Vermont granite workers despite the fact that mean quartz levels existing in the industry were below the current OSHA standard of 100 ,ug/m3. We reexamined these losses in granite workers over an 8-year period, testing the workforce biennially from 1979 to 1987. All workers, including stone shed, quarry, and...

In 1996, after two decades of increasing participation in cash and noncash public assistance programs by immigrant households (Borjas and Hilton, 1996), the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) drastically altered the availability of federal public assistance to legal immigrants but ostensibly not to refugees. Refugees were given a 5-year exemption from rules...

Background Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in primary care is a public health priority. Objectives We hypothesized that a subset of patients account for the majority of antibiotic prescriptions in primary care. We investigated the relationship between the total amount of antibiotics prescribed, individual-level antibiotic use and comorbidity. Methods This was a cohort study us...