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- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
distributions of income and wealth have grown more unequal, and rates of socioeconomic mobility have declined. Millions of households have had to work longer hours, add additional income earners, and devote more effort to succeed on the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
States. Yet to roll out lottery-linked products in an efficient way, we need to address the legal and regulatory barriers. Q: Can these ideas for savings vehicles be extended to households with higher incomes too? A: The work that I do... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
soccer is something he would mock." Another familiar part of the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt's upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market
I consider the widespread phenomenon of sex ratios skewed by parental preference. Edlund (1999) proposes that if parents prefer sons and permit only women to marry up in social class, sexes will segregate by wealth in equilibrium. Using data on 30,000 Indian children,... View Details
Keywords: Sex Selection; Marriage Market; Bargaining Power; Gender; Information Technology; Household; Outcome or Result; India
Hussam, Reshmaan N. "Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-029, September 2017. (Revised October 2020.)
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business births rose by 13 percent among... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
they will carve out more time for shopping and for sniffing out the best bargains. "What we observe suggests that households have fixed amounts of time to give to sites..." “Taken together,” the researchers conclude in their... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
debt. QE3 saw the Fed add a little more than $800 billion each of mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt. “We find that such a strategy would have allowed more households in distressed areas to lower their monthly payments... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
preparations; publicly advertised medicinal, pharmaceutical and dentifrice preparations; food products; household products; cosmetics and toilet preparations; and chemicals, organic colors and pigments, dye stuffs and intermediates."... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees associated with an expansion in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
months of deliberations with multiple stakeholders in India and the U.S., including individuals from academia, industry, and government. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54716 forthcoming Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
and align expectations with your partner Want to be grateful for your partner when it comes to household tasks and management? Communicate, reframe, and align your expectations. Women and men in mixed-gender couples generally expect to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
home. In South Korea, women routinely run their household budgets, according to former president Kim Dae-jung, whom Siegel interviewed for the study shortly before Kim's death in 2009. "In the household... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The instrument is orthogonal to private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
road half the time, grew in number as the size of the average American household declined. The new economy has made it even easier for consumers to get rid of their stuff. These huge houses had to be filled with more stuff, good news for... View Details
- September 2012
- Case
BASIX (Abridged)
By: Shawn Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microfinance; Household; Risk Management; Insurance; Banking Industry; India
Cole, Shawn, and Peter Tufano. "BASIX (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 213-035, September 2012.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
Bucciol, Alessandro, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan. "Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-093, March 2011.
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic mobility are all hot issues. A comedy show discovery Nearly two-thirds of View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
household decision making and the development of the financial system more broadly. What interests me in the topic is the extent to which the issues involved link developments in households, the economy, and public policy in the United... View Details