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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefitted and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...

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Fiscal Policy in a Networked Economy

Flynn, Joel P.; Patterson, Christina; Sturm, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Advanced economies feature complicated networks that connect households, firms, and regions. How do these structures affect the impact of fiscal policy and its optimal targeting? We study these questions in a model with input-output linkages, regional structure, and household heterogeneity in...

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Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans : Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees

Gruber, Jonathan - 2014

Recent years have seen enormous growth in limited network plans that restrict patient choice of provider, particularly through state exchanges under the ACA. Opposition to such plans is based on concerns that restrictions on provider choice will harm patient care. We explore this issue in the...

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Strengthening State Capacity : Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age

Aneja, Abhay; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil … effective postal service contributed to innovation and growth during the Gilded Age …

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Do Innovation Subsidies Make Chinese Firms More Innovative? Evidence from the China Employer Employee Survey

Cheng, Hong - 2019

the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …

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Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation

Agha, Leila - 2020

This paper studies how insurance coverage policies affect incentives for pharmaceutical innovation. In the United …

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Expected Profits and The Scientific Novelty of Innovation

Dranove, David - 2020

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …

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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War II

Gross, Daniel P. - 2020

World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting … innovation policy different, how crisis innovation policy approaches may vary, and the limits to generalizing from World War II …

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Lockdowns and Innovation : Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Berkes, Enrico - 2020

Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs …

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Price Indices and the Value of Innovation with Heterogenous Patients

Lucarelli, Claudio; Nicholson, Sean; Tilipman, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

justify high prices for the population as a whole, innovation improves the welfare of sicker, late-stage cancer patients. A …

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