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-hours care, and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well-targeted. …
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New South Wales, Australia. Our estimates indicate that the subsidies expanded access to oral chemotherapy for newly … responses to policy changes in financial incentives. …
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health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from Australia to study how high-income earners … rates. Our setting is particularly interesting because means testing creates different incentives at the extensive and …
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This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...
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Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main...
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Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by …
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How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
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A common observation is that individuals strive to neutralize the effect of procedural rules designed to drive choices away from their private optimum. An example of this phenomenon is offered by the reaction of Italian academia to two reforms that modified the procedures of recruitment and...
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of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …
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