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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles - 2013
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075862
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Good Rankings Are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers
Bouton, Laurent - 2015
unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457583
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles - 2013
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459212
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Impact Evaluation in Matching Markets with General Tie-Breaking
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017
Many centralized matching schemes incorporate a mix of random lottery and non-lottery tie-breaking. A leading example is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores and interviews to generate applicant rankings for some schools, combined with lottery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453541
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Impact Evaluation in Matching Markets with General Tie-Breaking
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2018
Many centralized matching schemes incorporate a mix of random lottery and non-lottery tie-breaking. A leading example is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores and interviews to generate applicant rankings for some schools, combined with lottery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930855
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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers
Bouton, Laurent - 2015
unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the ranking might affect the welfare of all consumers negatively. With rigid … prices, the ranking induced change in demand can be detrimental to all consumers in markets featuring rationing or … consumption externalities. With perfectly flexible prices, the ranking might increase firms' market power, and hence lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024517
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When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit? : Evidence from the SBIR Program
Gans, Joshua S. - 2000
This paper evaluates whether the relative concentration of funding for small, research-oriented firms in a small number of high-tech industries is related to the differences across industries in the level of appropriability or capital constraints facing small firms. To do so, we exploit a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470860
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When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit? : Evidence from the Sbir Program
Gans, Joshua; Stern, Scott - 2022
This paper evaluates whether the relative concentration of funding for small, research-oriented firms in a small number of high-tech industries is related to the differences across industries in the level of appropriability or capital constraints facing small firms. To do so, we exploit a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293706
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Company Stock Reactions to the 2016 Election Shock : Trump, Taxes and Trade
Wagner, Alexander F. - 2017
The election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America on 11/8/2016 came as a surprise. Markets responded swiftly and decisively. This note investigates both the initial stock market reaction to the election, and the longer-term reaction through the end of 2016. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963175
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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
We know that earnings inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the late 1970s, but there has been no evidence on the changing inequality of nonmonetary aspects of work nor on how any such changes are related to changes in earnings. I begin by studying patterns of interindustry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232150