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Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals
Dranove, David - 2014
Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records … (EMR) by hospitals. We measure the extent to which HITECH incentive payments spurred EMR adoption by independent hospitals …. Adoption rates for all independent hospitals grew from 48 percent in 2008 to 77 percent by 2011. Absent HITECH incentives, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046161
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Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture
Gupta, Apoorv; Ponticelli, Jacopo; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292243
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Privacy and Innovation
Goldfarb, Avi - 2014
Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067852
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Assessing the Productivity of Information Technology Equipment in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 2021
In this paper we report results of an empirical assessment of the cost reducing impacts of recent dramatic increases in stocks of "high-tech" office and information technology equipment (0) using annual data from various two digit US manufacturing industries over the 1952-1986 time period. While...
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The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
Greenstein, Shane M.; Lizardo, Mercedes M.; Spiller, … - 2021
Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy? To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240319
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060261
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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New Hr Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. And U.K
Bartel, Ann P. - 2015
organizational changes have the same rates of adoption and impact internationally. We have assembled a unique dataset on plants in … result of the adoption of the new technology, plants in both countries have shifted production to customized products …. Finally, we find that, in both countries, the adoption of the new IT-enhanced technology coincides with increases in the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750297
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750369
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Transatlantic Technologies : the Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. And European Productivity Growth
Gordon, Robert J.; Sayed, Hassan - 2021
We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is deficient when it separates sources of growth between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312125
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Foster, Lucia; … - 2021
establishments is linked to differential rates of technological adoption across establishments. Our findings are supportive of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313321