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dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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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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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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This paper characterizes the capital flows in Asia before and after the Asian currency crisis of 1997. Differences in foreign direct investment, portfolio investment, and bank lending are emphasized. There are common factors and idiosyncratic factors to the role of capital flows in the currency...
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Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action favoring the poorer … (majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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The initial impact of the Asian financial crisis in Malaysia reduced the expected value of government subsidies to …
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...
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In 1997-98, five east Asian countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand -- experienced …
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In the Asian crisis of 1997-98 some countries followed IMF prescriptions for stabilization and recovery. Malaysia went … crisis was over, as interest rates in all Asian crisis economies, including Malaysia, were already declining rapidly and as …
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