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The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy : Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

Sood, Neeraj - 2011

We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which simultaneously reduced marginal reimbursement and increased average reimbursement. IRFs could respond to the PPS by changing the total number of patients admitted,...

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Referrals : Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Bryan, Gharad - 2014

screening and enforcement effects. We allow for borrower heterogeneity in both ex-ante repayment type and ex-post susceptibility … information. Our method allows us to cleanly identify selection on the likelihood of repayment, selection on the susceptibility to … social pressure, and loan enforcement. We estimate peer effects on loan repayment in our setting, and find no evidence of …

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Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate : Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications

Sahm, Claudia - 2010

Only about one-fifth of respondents in the Reuters/University of Michigan survey report that the 2008 tax rebates led them to mostly increase spending, while over half said it would lead them to mostly pay off debt. Of those in the mostly-spend category, the response was swift, with over 80...

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Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

Spencer, Michael A. - 2010

This paper considers how six alternative rebate rules affect voluntary contributions in a threshold public-good experiment. The rules differ by (1) whether an individual can receive a proportional rebate of excess contributions, a winner-takes-all of any excess contributions, or a full rebate of...

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The Seniority Structure of Sovereign Debt

Trebesch, Christoph - 2019

Sovereign governments owe debt to many foreign creditors and can choose which creditors to favor when making payments. This paper documents the de facto seniority structure of sovereign debt using new data on defaults (missed payments or arrears) and creditor losses in debt restructuring...

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Rational Illiquidity and Consumption : Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds

Gelman, Michael - 2019

Having low liquidity and a high marginal propensity to consume (MPC) are tightly linked. This paper analyzes this linkage in the context of income tax withholding and refunds. A theory of rational cash management with income uncertainty endogenizes the relationship between illiquidity and the...

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Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2015

We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic … bank in Indonesia. In our main treatment, clients receive a text message stating that “non-repayment of debts by someone …

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Paying on the Margin for Medical Care : Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments

Einav, Liran - 2014

We present a simple graphical framework to illustrate the potential welfare gains from a “top-up” health insurance policy requiring patients to pay the incremental price for more expensive treatment options. We apply this framework to breast cancer treatments, where lumpectomy with radiation...

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How Much Favorable Selection is Left in Medicare Advantage?

Newhouse, Joseph P. - 2014

There are two types of selection models in the health economics literature. One focuses on choice between a fixed set of contracts. Consumers with greater demand for medical care services prefer contracts with more generous reimbursement, resulting in a suboptimal proportion of consumers in such...

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Who Benefits When the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program

Duggan, Mark - 2014

Governments contract with private firms to provide a wide range of services. While a large body of previous work has estimated the effects of that contracting, surprisingly little has investigated how those effects vary with the generosity of the contract. In this paper we examine this issue in...

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