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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Firm Training

Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

. Our discussion emphasizes the complex measurement issues associated with firm training and the interplay of applied theory …

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Monetary Policy in the Presence of Supply Constraints : Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Balleer, Almut; Nöller, Marvin - 2023

Using firm-level survey data from Germany, this paper asks how do supply constraints propagate monetary policy shocks …

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The Gift of a Lifetime : The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - 2022

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

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Dynamic Hospital Competition Under Rationing by Waiting Times

Sá, Luís - 2019

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...

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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes

Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...

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Airline Alliances and Service Quality

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

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Competition in Higher Education : A Survey

Kaganovich, Michael - 2020

The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...

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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching

Feld, Jan - 2019

In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...

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