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How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing … admit more profitable out-of-pocket private payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than … patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently brought to our attention that resulted in 0.55% of...
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to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career …. In this paper, we document the responses of self-employed and employed workers to these incentives, using social security …
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Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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motivated to share them than people with moderate opinions, resulting in biased distributions of reviews. Providing incentives … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of … high monetary rewards or a pro-social cue as incentives for reviewing reduces this bias. We conclude that while voluntary …
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Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked...
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spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …
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that increase the incentives of relatively more able workers, heterogeneity is unlikely to be as detrimental as commonly … perceived for incentives in organizations with multiple hierarchy levels. Heterogeneity of the workforce may even be optimal … from the perspective of a firm that provides incentives using a multi-stage promotion contest …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …
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