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  Does Consistency Predict Accuracy of Beliefs?: Economists Surveyed About PSA 

  Berg, Nathan; Biele, G; Gigerenzer, G (Discussion Paper, 2013)

  When economists' subjective beliefs about the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test are internally consistent (i.e., satisfying Bayes' Rule), their beliefs about prostate ...
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  How Much Does Women’s Empowerment Influence their Wellbeing? Evidence from Africa 

  Fielding, David (Discussion Paper, 2013)

  One of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to ‘promote gender equality and empower women.’ However, only 1% of official foreign aid is currently spent on gender equality and human rights. Using individual-level survey ...
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  Awareness of Sexually Transmitted Disease and Economic Malady: A First Look Using Search Engine Query Data 

  Farhat, Dan (Discussion Paper, 2013)

  Using search engine query data as a measure for public awareness of sexual health outcomes, this study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004 – 2012). This trend ...
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  Comment on Relative Price Variability and Inflation in Reinganum’s Consumer Search Model 

  Fielding, David; Hajzler, Chris (Discussion Paper, 2013)

  There is now a large empirical literature on the effect of the aggregate inflation rate on (i) the dispersion of prices across goods or locations (relative price variability, or RPV) and (ii) the dispersion of inflation ...
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  Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada 

  Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd (Discussion Paper, 2013)

  This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance ...

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