Control of Infectious Diseases Benefited Both Genders;
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19 March 2019
Trends in Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media
In a study of 569 fake news websites and 9,540 fake news stories on Facebook and Twitter between January 2015 and July 2018, Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, and Chuan Yu find that user interactions with false content rose steadily on both Facebook and Twitter through the end of 2016. Since then, interactions with false content have fallen sharply on Facebook while continuing to rise on Twitter.
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18 March 2019
The Impact of the ACA on California's Hospitals
Expansion of public health insurance under the Affordable Care Act produced substantial increases in revenue and profitability among California hospitals and no significant improvements in patient health, according to an analysis by Mark Duggan, Atul Gupta, and Emilie Jackson.
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15 March 2019
Does School Lunch Fill End of Month 'SNAP Gap'?
SNAP households rely more on school lunch and breakfast toward the end of the SNAP month, when the month’s benefits may be exhausted. School lunch participation among 11-to-18 year olds decreases by about 20 percentage points immediately after SNAP benefits payment while breakfast drops by an even larger amount, according to Agustina Laurito and Amy Ellen Schwartz.
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Analyzing Employment Levels after the Great Recession,
Comparing Experiences in Phoenix and San Antonio
In the recovery following the Great Recession, the unemployment rate returned to a normal level but — contrary to the standard economics playbook — the share of adults with a job did not. Danny Yagan of the University of California, Berkeley and the NBER, explored two possible explanations, one directly related to the recession, one unrelated.
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The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health
Black Men who Visit Black Primary Care Doctors
Are More Likely to Accept Preventative Health Care
Black men are less likely to visit a doctor and receive preventative services like diabetes screening than their non-black counterparts. A study summarized in the most recent issue of the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health finds that black male patients who see black doctors elect to receive recommended preventative health screenings at a much higher rate than those who see a non-black doctor. Also featured in this edition of the Bulletin: A look at the long-term impacts of Hurricane Katrina on survivors' mortality rates and an analysis of how fragmentation of the kidney exchange market constrict hospitals' efforts to match donors to recipients.
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A Spike in Levels of the Stress Hormone Cortisol
Is Associated with Lower Scores on High-Stakes Tests
High-stakes standardized testing of students is associated in males with heightened levels of cortisol, a hormone that can cause a lack of focus and recall and is associated with lower test scores, according to research featured in the March edition of the NBER Digest. Also summarized in this issue of the free monthly Digest are studies reporting on efforts to reduce children's access to firearms, examining an effort to attract high-achieving, low-income students to a top university, analyzing the reactions of retail investors when interest rates fall, assessing a major privatization drive in China, and exploring the impact of firms being awarded high-value patents, and analyzing a major factor in slow employment growth during recent economic recoveries.
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Impacts of a San Francisco Rent-Control Expansion:
More Long-Timers Can Stay, but Rental Supply Suffers
Policy-makers and community activists in many cities have used a variety of tools to shield long-term residents from being displaced or impoverished by evolving economic realities. NBER research associate Rebecca Diamond and her colleagues at Stanford University use changes in San Francisco's rent-control law made through a 1994 ballot initiative to explore the responses of tenants and landlords.
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Real Residential Real Estate Returns Are on a Par
with Returns on Equities — and Housing's Less Volatile
Contributing to the current debate over inequality, research featured in the current edition of the NBER Reporter finds that, on a global level and across most countries, the rate of return on capital was twice as high as the growth rate of the economy over the past 150 years. Long-run returns on housing and equities were similar, even though residential real estate is less volatile. Also in this issue of the quarterly are reports on the NBER's Household Finance Working Group, the role of financial factors in economic fluctuations, the price and quality of prescription drugs, and public sector personnel management in developing countries.
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New Research Associates
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The NBER appointed 58 new research associates and 45 new faculty research fellows in 2018. New appointees must be faculty members at North American colleges and universities, and are recommended by program directors in the culmination of a highly competitive process.
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