This paper uses a field experiment to test whether intrahousehold heterogeneity in discount factors leads to inefficient strategic savings behavior. I gave married couples in rural Kenya the opportunity to open both joint and individual bank accounts at randomly assigned interest rates. I also directly elicited discount factors for all individuals in the experiment. Couples who are well matched...

This paper investigates the design and performance of equity auctions— auctions in which bidders pay with equities instead of cash. Such equity auctions arise in many economic situations including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and oil and gas lease auctions. Among all incentivecompatible mechanisms of equity auctions, I identify the mechanism that maximizes the seller’s e...

The paper studies the partial identifying power of structural single equation threshold crossing models for binary responses when explanatory variables may be endogenous. The paper derives the sharp identi…ed set of threshold functions for the case in which explanatory variables are discrete and provides a constructive proof of sharpness. There is special attention to a widely employed semipara...

Abstract Background In vitro embryo production (IVP) and transfer (ET) are two very common assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in human cattle. However, pig, the combination of either procedures, or even their use separately, is still considered suboptimal due to low efficiency IVP plus difficulty performing ET long contorted uterus sow. addition, potential impact these ART on health offsp...