Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Economics"

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    • An Analysis of Costs and Health Co-Benefits for a U.S. Power Plant Carbon Standard 

      Buonocore, Jonathan J.; Lambert, Kathleen F.; Burtraw, Dallas; Sekar, Samantha; Driscoll, Charles T. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants can have important “co-benefits” for public health by reducing emissions of air pollutants. Here, we examine the costs and health co-benefits, in monetary terms, ...

    • Anticipation of Monetary Reward Can Attenuate the Vigilance Decrement 

      Esterman, Michael; Grosso, Mallory; Liu, Guanyu; Mitko, Alex; Morris, Rachael; DeGutis, Joseph (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Motivation and reward can have differential effects on separate aspects of sustained attention. We previously demonstrated that continuous reward/punishment throughout a sustained attention task improves overall performance, ...

    • The Causal Effect of Market Priming on Trust: An Experimental Investigation Using Randomized Control 

      Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Houser, Daniel; Nye, John; Paganelli, Maria Pia; Pan, Xiaofei (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      We report data from laboratory experiments where participants were primed using phrases related to markets and trade. Participants then participated in trust games with anonymous strangers. The decisions of primed participants ...

    • Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks 

      Jordan, Jillian J.; Rand, David G.; Arbesman, Samuel; Fowler, James H.; Christakis, Nicholas A. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Cooperation is essential for successful human societies. Thus, understanding how cooperative and selfish behaviors spread from person to person is a topic of theoretical and practical importance. Previous laboratory ...

    • Financial contributions to global surgery: an analysis of 160 international charitable organizations 

      Gutnik, Lily; Yamey, Gavin; Riviello, Robert; Meara, John G.; Dare, Anna J.; Shrime, Mark G. (Springer International Publishing, 2016)
      Background: The non-profit and volunteer sector has made notable contributions to delivering surgical services in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). As an estimated 55 % of surgical care delivered in some LMICs is ...

    • Poverty, Disease, and the Ecology of Complex Systems 

      Ngonghala, Calistus N.; Pluciński, Mateusz M.; Murray, Megan B.; Farmer, Paul E.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Keenan, Donald C.; Bonds, Matthew H. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base ...

    • Practical Applications of Cosmology to Human Society 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,, 2014)
      Complex systems throughout Nature display structures and functions that are built and maintained, at least in part, by optimal energies flowing through them—not specific, ideal values, rather ranges in energy rate density ...

    • Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle 

      Schneps, Matthew H.; Thomson, Jenny M.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Pomplun, Marc; Chen, Chen; Heffner-Wong, Amanda (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      People with dyslexia, who ordinarily struggle to read, sometimes remark that reading is easier when e-readers are used. Here, we used eye tracking to observe high school students with dyslexia as they read using these ...

    • Truthful Mechanisms for Agents that Value Privacy 

      Chen, Yiling; Chong, Stephen N; Kash, Ian A.; Moran, Tal; Vadhan, Salil P. (ACM Press, 2013)
      Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from the truthfulness; it is not incorporated in players' utility functions ...

    • Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others 

      Kanngiesser, Patricia; Warneken, Felix (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Merit is a key principle of fairness: rewards should be distributed according to how much someone contributed to a task. Previous research suggests that children have an early ability to take merit into account in third-party ...