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The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators’ sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-11)
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a reform effort “for states, by states,” advances ambitious ideals for elementary science teaching, but the fate of these ideals will depend in part on the engagement of state ...
Information effects on lay tradeoffs between national regulatory costs and benefits
(Harvard School of Public HealthWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
A novel stated-preference “macro-risk” approach introduced to estimate the life-prolonging benefits of proposed environmental, health, and safety regulations may answer questions unasked or wrongly answered by conventional ...
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo-related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-11)
Research SummaryThis study examines how incumbent director reactions to media coverage of the #MeToo movement have impacted the evaluation of prospective corporate directors. We argue that heightened intergroup anxiety ...
Taxonomies for synthesizing the evidence on communicating numbers in health: Goals, format, and structure
(ETSWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
Many people, especially those with low numeracy, are known to have difficulty interpreting and applying quantitative information to health decisions. These difficulties have resulted in a rich body of research about better ...
Individual learning as a driver of changes in community vulnerability under repeated hurricanes and changing climate
(Oxford UniversityWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2023-04)
The risks from singular natural hazards such as a hurricane have been extensively investigated in the literature. However, little is understood about how individual and collective responses to repeated hazards change ...
Sport tickets pricing strategy with home team’s crowd effect
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023-03)
This paper investigates the impact of the crowd effect and financing constraints on pricing strategy by constructing an intertemporal model and introducing the crowd effect into a monopolistic home team’s decision-making ...
Preserving the Non-Physical: Essence and Value Perceptions
(2022)
The value of possessions is not always immediately apparent, making them something greater than the sum of their physical parts. People share the pervasive belief that things carry an essence which contributes to their ...