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Ambulance Taxis : The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud

Eliason, Paul J.; McDevitt, Ryan C.; Roberts, James W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …

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Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program

Geruso, Michael - 2013

Many employers have implemented dependent verification (DV) programs, which aim to reduce employee benefits costs by ensuring that ineligible persons are not enrolled in their health plan as dependents. We evaluate a DV program using a panel of health plan enrollment data from a large,...

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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud

Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel W.; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing … beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We examine these trade-offs in one of the largest economic relief programs … measures of loan irregularities that are indicative of fraud. Moreover, our analysis reveals that a subset of borrowers with a …

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000

We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...

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Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms : Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

Ding, Haoyuan - 2020

We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium …

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General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Egger, Dennis - 2019

How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one-time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied...

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Smokers’ Rational Lexicographic Preferences for Cigarette Package Warnings : A Discrete Choice Experiment with Eye Tracking

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2018

We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with varying warnings and background colors. Each smoker had to decide which of the two packages contained cigarettes less risky for his health. We tested whether the smokers, confronted...

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Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

Borusyak, Kirill - 2018

Many studies use shift-share (or "Bartik") instruments, which average a set of shocks with exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for such designs in which identification follows from the quasi-random assignment of shocks, allowing exposure shares to be endogenous. This...

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy - 2004

This paper makes three primary contributions. First, we demonstrate the usefulness of general equilibrium models as tools with which to draw policy implications for policies implemented in practice only as small-scale social experiments. Second, we illustrate the usefulness of social experiments...

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Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments

Heckman, James - 1994

experiment base vindicates application of Bloom's method in this context …

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