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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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As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has...
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educator performance metrics and measures of student achievement. To mitigate incentives for coaching, incentive systems should … information about student achievement because they create no incentives for educators to take hidden actions that contaminate …
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We show that economic incentives affect the number and commercial value of inventions generated in universities. Using …
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In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...
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Policymakers and academics are increasingly interested in applying financial incentives to individuals in education …
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for mutual fund families to internalize broker incentives leads us to predict that the market for mutual funds will be …
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This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other...
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; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the …-powered contracts. We also show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance that are typically observed in …
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