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We exploit time variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of a prospective pay systems (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care services. We consider a survey of more than 600,000...
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wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …
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demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to …
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We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of …
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throughout the country. This study examines the effects of proximity to a Mexican restaurant – the dominant type of ethnic fast … casual restaurant – on maternal and child health. I match data on the complete residential addresses of all mothers who gave … in proximity to a Mexican restaurant is associated with an 8% lower likelihood of excessive weight gain among US …
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This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant …
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We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...
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Background: Adult studies have shown that nursing overtime and unit overcrowding is associated with increased adverse patient events but there exists little evidence for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Objectives: To predict the onset on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a...
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We investigate heterogenous employment effects of Flemish training programmes. Based on administrative individual data, we analyse programme effects at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests (MCF), a causal machine learning estimator for multiple programmes. While all...
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Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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