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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : the Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-Per-Mile Limits
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009
Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to “predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor : Farmer Investments and Worker Migration in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
seasonal forecasts of monsoon weather. We find that in areas where the forecast is accurate (has “skill”) that investment …, migration and rural wages respond to forecasts. We calculate that if such skill were pervasive across India, the total value of … an accurate forecast for farmers and wage workers is in the tens of billions of rupees.Institutional subscribers to the …
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages Over the Agricultural Production Cycle
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2014
the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting …
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Hospitals as Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
Goldman, Dana P. - 2010
Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that...
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Private Precaution and Public Restrictions : What Drives Social Distancing and Industry Foot Traffic in the Covid-19 Era?
Cronin, Christopher - 2020
We examine the role of state and local policies to encourage social distancing, including stay at home orders, public school closures, and restrictions on restaurants, entertainment, and large social gatherings. Outcomes come from cell phone records and include foot traffic in six industries...
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Subsidies and Structure : The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton Program on the Hospital Industry
Chung, Andrew - 2016
The hospital industry is one of the most important industries in the U.S., and industry structure can have profound effects on the functioning of markets. Using county-level panel data, we study the effect of public subsidies from the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, known as the...
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Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?
David, Guy - 2011
Cross-subsidies are often considered the principal mechanism through which hospitals provide unprofitable care. Yet, hospitals' reliance on and extent of cross-subsidization are difficult to establish. We exploit entry by cardiac specialty hospitals as an exogenous shock to incumbent hospitals'...
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The Median Voter and the Median Consumer : Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting
Waldfogel, Joel - 2021
When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and consumed locally, so that provision requires not only a large group favoring the product but a large number nearby. Just as one has an...
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