Dan Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9657-6412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers
The appropriateness of many high-cost loan regulations depends on whether demand is driven by financial conditions ("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers have especially low liquidity just before getting a loan. Borrowers exhibit lower decision-making ability (DMA) in linked choice experiments: 45% of loan dollars go to the bottom 20% of the DMA distribution. Standard determinants of demand d…
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
We implement an artefactual field experiment in rural Malawi to study revisions of prior choices regarding future income receipts. This allows examination of intertemporal choice revision and its determinants. New tests provide evidence of self‐control problems for some participants. Revisions of money allocations towards the present are positively associated with refined measures of present‐bias from an earlier survey and with the randomly assig…
Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
Henry S. Farber, Dan Silverman, Till M. von Wachter, Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 168-201
An Old Measure of Decision-Making Quality Sheds New Light on Paternalism
Definitive judgment about the quality of decision-making is made difficult by twin problems of measurement and identification. A measure of decision-making quality is hard to formalize, to quantify, and to make practical for use in a variety of choice environments; and it is difficult to distinguish differences in decisionmaking quality from unobserved differences in preferences, information, beliefs, or constraints. In this paper, we describe a …
Factions and Political Competition
This paper presents a new model of political competition in which candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization of the party to the allocation of resources. In doing so, the model provides a unified explanation of two prominent features of public resource allocati…
Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market
We provide evidence of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market and analyze its sources. Conditional on controls for Medigap prices, those with Medigap spend, on average, $4,000 less on medical care than those without. But if we condition on health, those with Medigap spend $2,000 more. The sources of this advantageous selection include income, education, longevity expectations, and financial planning horizons, as well as cognitive …
Social isolation and inequality
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height
Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual’s height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the effect of adult height on wages for white men. The teen height premium is not explained by differences in resources or endowments. The teen height premium…
Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936
Fantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936
Government without Administration: State and Civil Service in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Jane Caplan
National Socialist Economics: The Wirtschaftswunder Reconsidered
Nazification of the German Bureaucracy Reconsidered: A Case Study
Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
Zabern 1913. Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany.
Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
L'Alsace et l'Allemagne de 1945 à 1949 . Patrick J. Schaeffer
Reluctant Union. Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany 1871-1918
The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 was a relatively simple operation; it took only a few weeks for Prussian armies to rout the French forces. But integrating this prize of war into Imperial Germany proved far more difficult than anyone had imagined. It is indeed a rather pathetic spectacle. While some of the highest civilian officials of the territorial administration sought to integrate the Reichsland into the Reich, the highest mil…
A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany
If every German had had his own home,” wrote the National Socialist Karl Fiehler in 1932, “the revolution of 1918 would not have been possible.” Typical of the Nazi tendency toward exaggeration, Fiehler's assertion nevertheless recognized the role of housing in a stable society. Article 155 of the Weimar constitution of August 11, 1919, promised suitable housing for every German, but that promise remained unfulfilled. The Weimar regime, in fact, …
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height
Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual’s height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the effect of adult height on wages for white men. The teen height premium is not explained by differences in resources or endowments. The teen height premium…
Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market
We provide evidence of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market and analyze its sources. Conditional on controls for Medigap prices, those with Medigap spend, on average, $4,000 less on medical care than those without. But if we condition on health, those with Medigap spend $2,000 more. The sources of this advantageous selection include income, education, longevity expectations, and financial planning horizons, as well as cognitive …
Factions and Political Competition
This paper presents a new model of political competition in which candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization of the party to the allocation of resources. In doing so, the model provides a unified explanation of two prominent features of public resource allocati…
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
We implement an artefactual field experiment in rural Malawi to study revisions of prior choices regarding future income receipts. This allows examination of intertemporal choice revision and its determinants. New tests provide evidence of self‐control problems for some participants. Revisions of money allocations towards the present are positively associated with refined measures of present‐bias from an earlier survey and with the randomly assig…
A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany
If every German had had his own home,” wrote the National Socialist Karl Fiehler in 1932, “the revolution of 1918 would not have been possible.” Typical of the Nazi tendency toward exaggeration, Fiehler's assertion nevertheless recognized the role of housing in a stable society. Article 155 of the Weimar constitution of August 11, 1919, promised suitable housing for every German, but that promise remained unfulfilled. The Weimar regime, in fact, …
The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 was a relatively simple operation; it took only a few weeks for Prussian armies to rout the French forces. But integrating this prize of war into Imperial Germany proved far more difficult than anyone had imagined. It is indeed a rather pathetic spectacle. While some of the highest civilian officials of the territorial administration sought to integrate the Reichsland into the Reich, the highest mil…
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers
The appropriateness of many high-cost loan regulations depends on whether demand is driven by financial conditions ("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers have especially low liquidity just before getting a loan. Borrowers exhibit lower decision-making ability (DMA) in linked choice experiments: 45% of loan dollars go to the bottom 20% of the DMA distribution. Standard determinants of demand d…
Fantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936
A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany
If every German had had his own home,” wrote the National Socialist Karl Fiehler in 1932, “the revolution of 1918 would not have been possible.” Typical of the Nazi tendency toward exaggeration, Fiehler's assertion nevertheless recognized the role of housing in a stable society. Article 155 of the Weimar constitution of August 11, 1919, promised suitable housing for every German, but that promise remained unfulfilled. The Weimar regime, in fact, …
The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1871–1918
Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 was a relatively simple operation; it took only a few weeks for Prussian armies to rout the French forces. But integrating this prize of war into Imperial Germany proved far more difficult than anyone had imagined. It is indeed a rather pathetic spectacle. While some of the highest civilian officials of the territorial administration sought to integrate the Reichsland into the Reich, the highest mil…
Reluctant Union. Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany 1871-1918
L'Alsace et l'Allemagne de 1945 à 1949 . Patrick J. Schaeffer
Zabern 1913. Consensus Politics in Imperial Germany.
Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
National Socialist Economics: The Wirtschaftswunder Reconsidered
Nazification of the German Bureaucracy Reconsidered: A Case Study
Government without Administration: State and Civil Service in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Jane Caplan
Fantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936
Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height
Taller workers receive a wage premium. Net of differences in family background, the disparity is similar in magnitude to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual’s height over time to explore how height affects wages. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the effect of adult height on wages for white men. The teen height premium is not explained by differences in resources or endowments. The teen height premium…
Social isolation and inequality
Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market
We provide evidence of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market and analyze its sources. Conditional on controls for Medigap prices, those with Medigap spend, on average, $4,000 less on medical care than those without. But if we condition on health, those with Medigap spend $2,000 more. The sources of this advantageous selection include income, education, longevity expectations, and financial planning horizons, as well as cognitive …
Factions and Political Competition
This paper presents a new model of political competition in which candidates belong to factions. Before elections, factions compete to direct local public goods to their local constituencies. The model of factional competition delivers a rich set of implications relating the internal organization of the party to the allocation of resources. In doing so, the model provides a unified explanation of two prominent features of public resource allocati…
An Old Measure of Decision-Making Quality Sheds New Light on Paternalism
Definitive judgment about the quality of decision-making is made difficult by twin problems of measurement and identification. A measure of decision-making quality is hard to formalize, to quantify, and to make practical for use in a variety of choice environments; and it is difficult to distinguish differences in decisionmaking quality from unobserved differences in preferences, information, beliefs, or constraints. In this paper, we describe a …
Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
Henry S. Farber, Dan Silverman, Till M. von Wachter, Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 168-201
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
We implement an artefactual field experiment in rural Malawi to study revisions of prior choices regarding future income receipts. This allows examination of intertemporal choice revision and its determinants. New tests provide evidence of self‐control problems for some participants. Revisions of money allocations towards the present are positively associated with refined measures of present‐bias from an earlier survey and with the randomly assig…
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers
The appropriateness of many high-cost loan regulations depends on whether demand is driven by financial conditions ("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers have especially low liquidity just before getting a loan. Borrowers exhibit lower decision-making ability (DMA) in linked choice experiments: 45% of loan dollars go to the bottom 20% of the DMA distribution. Standard determinants of demand d…
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