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Hussam, Reshmaan N.; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: (1) a control arm, (2) a weekly cash arm, and (3) a …

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale natural field experiment to connect CSR to an important but often …

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Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents? : Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

Frakes, Michael D. - 2014

We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient examination time may hamper examiner search and rejection efforts, leaving examiners more inclined to grant invalid applications. To test this prediction, we use application-level...

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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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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants' employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...

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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986

This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...

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Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

Bartel, Ann - 2003

Using the employee opinion survey responses from several thousand employees working in 193 branches of a major U.S. bank, we consider whether there is a distinctive workplace component to employee attitudes despite the common set of corporate human resource management practices that cover all...

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Deadly Discrimination : Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety

Tan, Zhibo; Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the "missing girls" phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but potentially dangerous jobs. In response, employers invest less in workplace safety, which...

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