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This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection …
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to Swedish register data, suggests that intergenerational schooling associations are largely driven by selection …
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heterogeneity, sample selection and instrumenting for possible endogeneity is 0.21. Individual and institutional features are …
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biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will …
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particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …
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suggests that self-selection of more prosocial students into experiments is not a major issue. Our second study compares …
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amount. Furthermore, under certain conditions self-selection implies that participants with high observed strength levels …
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We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to imported varieties lowers the cost of intermediate inputs (“machines”) used to carry out production tasks, causing workers with different comparative abilities to be sorted...
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There is ample empirical evidence indicating that a substantial fraction of the population exhibits social preferences. Recent work also shows that social preferences influence the effectiveness of incentives in labor relations. Hence when making contracting decisions, employers should take into...
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