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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Abhijit Chowdhury, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, Reshmaan Hussam and Aakash Mohpal
Patient trust is an important driver of the demand for healthcare. But it may also impact supply: doctors who realize that patients may not trust them may adjust their behavior in response. We assemble a large dataset that assesses clinical performance using... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Developing Countries and Economies; Trust
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    Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits

    This background note explores the basic themes surrounding the government's approach to providing housing: namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households

    By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
    The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government... View Details
    Keywords: Bi-level Optimization; Optimal Subsidies; Public Policy; Food Policy; Central Planner; Government Administration; Poverty; Food; Nutrition
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal
    The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Housing; Renting or Rental; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value

    In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value... View Details
    • May 2024
    • Article

    Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

    By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
    Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • July 2021
    • Article

    Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich

    By: Oliver P. Hauser, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak and Michael I. Norton
    Four experiments examine how the lack of awareness of inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to... View Details
    Keywords: Income Transparency; Income; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Knowledge; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Society; Policy
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    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (D): TED Spread and Swap Spread in May 2009

    The D case briefly recounts the action that investment manager Albert Mills takes in the matter of an unusually low U.S. dollar fixed-floating swap spread. He must decide what to do next. View Details
    Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Interest Rates; Financial Crisis
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
    The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
    Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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    • September 2018
    • Case

    Advent International: Kroton Investment

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Kostas and Priscilla Zogbi
    Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along; Brazil; Latin America
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    • Article

    From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think

    By: Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
    While numerous studies have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Work-Life Balance; Satisfaction; Income; Household
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    • September 2018
    • Supplement

    Advent International: Kroton Investment

    By: Victoria Ivashina, Priscilla Zogbi and Ruth Kostas
    Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along
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    • 14 Jun 2021
    • News

    Why the Hottest Primary Care Startups Aren't Chasing Medicaid

    • 12 Feb 2015
    • Video

    Year Up: Why Investing in Young Adults Makes Sense

    • 03 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

    professor of international business at the Ming Hsin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, per-capita income varies from $380 to $5,000 annually in different regions. "You have to realize that China is very, very... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

    year comes in the form of an income tax refund. In 2001, the IRS returned $78 billion to families making less than $30,000 annually, for an average return of $1,546 per filer. To Tufano, that check suggested itself as an ideal... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
    • Article

    Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
    We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Financial Liquidity; Retirement; Canada; Germany; Australia; United Kingdom; United States; Singapore
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    • Article

    How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

    By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva
    We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only... View Details
    Keywords: Income; Taxation; Economic Growth; United States
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    • Awards

    PEDL Major Research Grant

    Awarded a Major Research Grant by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the UK Department for International Development for their “Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL)” research initiative. The grant was awarded for "The Effects of Land... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Rangan is studying how businesses create value for the 4.2 billion low income, and poorer income residents at the base of the global income pyramid. These are individuals who live on less than $5/day. Providing food, water, sanitation, healthcare, education, skills... View Details