Our Research
Incentives and Habit Formation in Health Screenings: Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Jones, D., Molitor, D., & Reif, J. Working Paper.
We study habit formation in annual biometric health screenings using a field experiment that randomly assigned financial incentives to 4,799 employees over three years.
Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
Molitor, D., & White, C. Forthcoming. Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous.
COVID-19 Test-to-Stay Program for K-12 Schools: Opt-in Versus Opt-out Consent Model
Anton Ivanov, Ujjal Mukherjee, Subhonmesh Bose, Sridhar Seshadri, Ronald Watkins, Albert England, Jacqueline Suriano, Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Sebastian Souyris Published in iScience
The CDC's Test-to-Stay (TTS) program delineates guidelines for schools to regularly test students and staff to minimize risks of infection transmission. We study the impacts of the two enrollment approaches on testing and positivity rates with data from 259 schools in Illinois.
The Marginal Product of Climate
Tatyana Deryugina & Solomon Hsiang. Working Paper.
We develop an empirical approach to value changes to a climate in terms of total market output given optimal factor allocations in general equilibrium.
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