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of employer-imposed vaccine mandates at 581 nursing homes on disease spread, employment outcomes, and several patient …
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Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems, potentially costing billions of dollars. Knowledge of the determinants and costs of burnout at the organization level is sparse, making it difficult to assess the net benefits of...
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We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in...
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The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...
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Suicide rates among youths aged 15-24 have tripled in the past half-century, even as rates for adults and the elderly … have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the … dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and reaches three conclusions. First, we suggest that many suicide attempts …
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Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks are just as likely to … target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though … rebels often kill coreligionists, they seldom use suicide attacks to do so. We model the choice of tactics by rebels, bearing …
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with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more …). The canonical model does a surprisingly good job of predicting changes in the wage structure in the U.S. and other … of technology and does a better job of fitting non-monotonic changes in the wage structure. Yet the task framework does …
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The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few occupations can "spill over" through consumption into...
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productivity and less dependent on easily observable characteristics or credentials that predict productivity. Consider a wage … show that the wage coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable should rise with time in the labor market and the … wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test …
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