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little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine … administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the retirement response to actual and perceived financial incentives. We … find that well-informed individuals are five times more responsive to pension incentives than the average individual when …
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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects...
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We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and … information. We find that while advances in information technology that lower information acquisition costs always increase growth …
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developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different …. We review a considerable body of survey evidence and theory that seeks to explain why developers participate in open …
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This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on …
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This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We … examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a …
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In an earlier work, we analyzed how the legal rules governing contractual liability affect the transfer of information … beneficially facilitate information transfers. We reconsider here the subject of contractual liability and the revelation of … information and respond to Adler's critique. We find Adler's model to be a natural extension of ours rather than a departure from …
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In this paper, the choice between public and private provision of goods and services is considered. In practice, both modes of operation involve significant delegation of authority, and thus appear quite similar in some respects. The argument here is that the main difference between the two mod-...
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form of organization in this sector, relatively little is known about the behavior and performance of these firms. In this … or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously … with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well …
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