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in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and …We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …
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What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and...
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Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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in one of the world's most valuable agricultural areas: California. Using rich administrative data and exogenous … discrete choice model, we estimate that a counterfactual $10 per-acre-foot groundwater tax--a level consistent with California …
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Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 …, but the effects of the pandemic on enrollment in the California Community College system are mostly unknown and might … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …
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this paper we study California's mandatory enrollment of the senior and persons with disabilities (SPD) population in MMC …
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wage law and in 2016 the State of California passed a different minimum wage law. This created two minimum wage schedules … proximity to restaurants subject to the lower California State minimum wage. The effect of neighborhood income levels and …
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the fuels with a large survey of California households' energy use, we calculate the distribution of annual fuel costs for …
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-Aid Highway System (FAHS) roads in California show statistically and economically significant increases in vehicle crash rates and …
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California and February 2021 in Texas demonstrate, supply shortfalls can have large economic and public health consequences. An …
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