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Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok; Yariv, Leeat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study dynamic task allocation when providers' expertise evolves endogenously through training. We characterize optimal assignment protocols and compare them to discretionary procedures, where it is the clients who select their service providers. Our results indicate that welfare gains from...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2011

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...

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The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions : Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program

Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel...

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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?

Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...

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Regulatory Costs of Being Public : Evidence from Bunching Estimation

Ewens, Michael; Xiao, Kairong; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. Consistent with firms seeking to avoid costly regulation, we document significant bunching around multiple regulatory thresholds …

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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles

Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...

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The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets : Evidence from a New Wharton Index

Gyourko, Joseph - 2019

regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …

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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009

The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...

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Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation : Evidence from US and Italy

Atella, Vincenzo - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between drug price and drug quality and how it varies across two of the most common regulatory regimes in the pharmaceutical market: minimum efficacy standards (MES) and a mix of minimum efficacy standards and price control mechanisms (MES+PC). Through a...

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The Political Economy of Financial Regulation : Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century

Benmelech, Efraim - 2007

We investigate the causes and consequences of financial regulation by studying the political economy of U.S. state … affected by rate ceilings. Exploiting the heterogeneity across states and time in regulation, enforcement, and market … conditions, we find that regulation tightens when it is less costly and when it coexists with other economic and political …

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