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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337803
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Designing Difference in Difference Studies With Staggered Treatment Adoption : Key Concepts and Practical Guidelines
Freedman, Seth; Hollingsworth, Alex; Simon, Kosali … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Difference-in-Difference (DID) estimators are a valuable method for identifying causal effects in the public health researcher's toolkit. A growing methods literature points out potential problems with DID estimators when treatment is staggered in adoption and varies with time. Despite this, no...
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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry
Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...
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The Governance of Non-Profits and their Social Impact : Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Fangwa, Anicet; Flammer, Caroline; Huysentruyt, Marieke; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How can non-profit organizations improve their governance to increase their social impact? This study examines the effectiveness of a bundle of governance mechanisms - consisting of social performance-based incentives combined with auditing and feedback - in the context of a randomized...
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
Cools, Angela - 2019
within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases … the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees. It … aspirations and to more risky behavior (including having a child before age 18). The girls most strongly affected are those in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479713
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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - 2019
birth of boys relative to daughters. There is no evidence of increases in investments in boys that would be complementary to … with the idea that mothers are rewarded for giving birth to boys, leading them to have more leisure and work less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480130
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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature
Corman, Hope - 2018
Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996978
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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement
Chen, Stacey H. - 2014
Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until a boy is born, and to concentrate investment in boys …
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