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Buying the best : cost escalation in elite higher education
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 1996
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Administrative aspects of investment-based social security reform
Shoven, John B. (ed.) - 2000
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Labor markets and firm benefit policies in Japan and the United States
Ogura, Seiritsu (ed.); Tachibanaki, Toshiaki (contributor);  … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013481154
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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Project Appraisal and Foreign Exchange Constraints : A Simple Exposition
Blitzer, Charles R. - 1987
In an earlier paper, we showed that the value of shadow prices depends on how the government contemplates re- equilibrating the economy to the perturbation associated with any project, except in the extreme case where the government has chosen all policy instruments optimally. Only under...
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The Social Cost of Labor, and Project Evaluation : A General Approach
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1983
This paper develops a general methodology for analyzing shadow wage (and other shadow prices). Our approach is to identify those reduced form relationships describing the economy which are central to the determination of the shadow wage, and use these to obtain simple formulae for the shadow...
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A Model of Trade and Exchange Rate Projections
Halttunen, Hannu - 1979
This paper develops and applies a model of world trade and exchange rates to analyze dynamic interaction of the current account and exchange rate. The model is designed to concentrate on the determination of trade flows, prices and exchange rates for the OECD member countries but it also covers...
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On the Theory of Productive Saving
Ehrlich, Isaac - 1975
The central thesis of this paper is that the management of portfolios incorporating a variety of investment assets does require the use of time and other scarce resources in searching for, collecting, interpreting, and applying relevant information. Accordingly, the returns on these assets would...
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