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Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Turcotte, Leo; Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and cesarean delivery. Propensity score methods are used to account for sample selection issues regarding...

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Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Possebom, Vítor Augusto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...

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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …

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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...

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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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