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This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
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States. It summarizes the incentives for inter vivos giving as a strategy for reducing estate tax liability. It shows that …
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Explicit financial incentives, especially pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives, have been extensively employed in …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and … responses are of modest size, physicians responded to some of the financial incentives but not the others. The differential …
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Financial incentives for teachers to increase student performance is an increasingly popular education policy around … to better understand the impact of teacher incentives on student achievement. I find no evidence that teacher incentives … increase student performance, attendance, or graduation, nor do I find any evidence that the incentives change student or …
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It is argued that changes in workers' budget sets cannot explain the dramatic increases in" civilian work in the U.S. during World War II. Although money wages grew during the period wartime after-tax real wages were lower than either before or after the war. Evidence from the" 1940's also...
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performance measure. We describe how those incentives differ across hospitals, including integrated and safety-net hospitals. We … incentives to improve care …
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respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and …
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begin by showing that Exchange risk adjustment and reinsurance succeed in neutralizing selection incentives for most, but …
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This study combines the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances data and the Fiscal Analyzer, a highly detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program, to a) measure ultimate economic inequality – inequality in lifetime spending power – within cohorts, b) assess fiscal...
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U.S. companies are often criticized for being overly short-term oriented. This paper documents that those criticisms have a long history, going back at least thirty-five years. The paper then considers the implications of sustained short-termism for corporate profits, venture capital investments...
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