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Barsky, Robert B. - 2009

We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...

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Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview : Empirical Evidence from France

Diaye, Marc-Arthur - 2013

Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over … 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an … optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is defined simply as a signal in most papers) receives a large attention …

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Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs : Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects

Evans, Mary F. - 2010

This paper considers the factors responsible for differences with age in estimates of the wage compensation an individual requires to accept increased occupational fatality risk. We derive a relationship between the value of a statistical life (VSL) and the degree of complementarity between...

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Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality

Doyle, Joseph J. - 2017

In response to unsustainable growth in health care spending, there is enormous interest in reforming the payment system to “pay for quality instead of quantity.” While quality measures are crucial to such reforms, they face major criticisms largely over the potential failure of risk...

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An Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality : Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2017

There are three primary measures of teaching performance: student test-based measures (i.e., value added), classroom observations, and student surveys. Although all three types of measures could be biased by unmeasured traits of the students in teachers' classrooms, prior research has largely...

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Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces : Facts, Theory and Evidence

Fang, Hanming - 2018

In the health insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), each state is divided into a set number of geographic ``rating areas." The ACA mandates that an insurer price its health insurance plan uniformly in all counties within the same rating area, conditional on...

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Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride

Butera, Luigi - 2019

Public recognition is a frequent tool for motivating desirable behavior, yet its welfare effects are rarely measured. We develop a portable money-metric approach for measuring the direct welfare effects of shame and pride, which we deploy in a series of experiments on exercise and charitable...

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Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies : Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Wahba, Sadek M. - 2021

treatment impact of a program? Using data from Lalonde's (1986) influential evaluation of non-experimental methods, we …

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Food for Thought : The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition

Figlio, David N.; Winicki, Joshua - 2021

School accountability systems based on high-stakes testing of students have become ubiquitous in the United States, and are now federal policy as well. This paper identifies a previously-unresearched method through which schools faced with potential sanctions may 'game the system' in order to...

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Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Taber, Christopher - 2021

This paper considers the statistical and economic justification for one widely-used method of adjusting data from social experiments to account for dropping-out behavior due to Bloom (1984). We generalize the method to apply to distributions not just means, and present tests of the key...

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