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Publication bias and editorial statement on negative findings
Blanco-Perez, Cristina; Brodeur, Abel - 2019
In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the extent of specification searching and reminds referees to accept studies that: "have potential scientific and publication merit regardless of whether such studies' empirical...
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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737638
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Quality and accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) : a simulated patient study using ChatGPT
Si, Yafei; Yang, Yuji; Wang, Xi; An, Ruopeng; Zu, Jiaqi; … - 2024
Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common diseases in low- and middle-income countries. We find ChatGPT's performance varied within a single...
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
healthcare quality was assessed at baseline through healthcare discrimination and dissatisfaction with healthcare services. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495150
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The three i's of public schools : irrelevant inputs, insufficient resources and inefficiency
Henderson, Daniel J.; Simar, Léopold; Wang, Le - 2016
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using nonparametric kernel methods, we find that most traditional schooling inputs are irrelevant in determining test scores (even in a very general setting). Property tax caps are the only...
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Sectoral structure and entry regulations
Messina, Julián (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the “right” indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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Estimating the income loss of disabled individuals : the case of Spain
Cervini-Plá, María; Silva, José Ignacio; Vall … - 2012
In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575396
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Physician payment contracts in the presence of moral hazard and adverse selection : the theory and its application to Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2015
in the blended capitation model provide fewer services than physicians in the enhanced fee-for-service model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288527
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
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