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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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Partisan Entrepreneurship
Engelberg, Joseph; Guzman, Jorge; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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The Effect of Price Caps on Pharmaceutical Advertising : Evidence from the 340b Drug Pricing Program
Hristakeva, Sylvia; Mortimer, Julie Holland; Yde, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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Managers and Productivity in Retail
Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...
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Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations
Espinosa, Miguel; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers' productivity. We use email...
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The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Spending
Sahni, Nikhil; Stein, George; Zemmel, Rodney; Cutler, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify existing healthcare processes and create new, more efficient ones is a major topic of discussion in the industry. Yet healthcare lags other industries in AI adoption. In this paper, we estimate that wider adoption of AI could lead to...
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Managers and the Management of Organizations
Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...
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The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains
Fort, Teresa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper documents how US firms organize goods production across firm and country boundaries. Most US firms that perform physical transformation tasks in-house using foreign manufacturing plants in 2007 also own US manufacturing plants; moreover manufacturing comprises their main domestic...
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Gaming and Effort in Performance Pay
Bertuzzi, Luca; Eliason, Paul J.; Heebsh, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual variation in the criteria for Medicare's Quality...
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Accelerating Innovation Ecosystems : The Promise and Challenges of Regional Innovation Engines
Guzman, Jorge; Murray, Fiona E. S.; Stern, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Motivated by the establishment of major U.S. Federal programs seeking to harness the potential of regional innovation ecosystems, we assess the promise and challenges of place-based innovation policy interventions. Relative to traditional research grants, place-based innovation policy...
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