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We examine the effect of New York City's universal pre-kindergarten program (UPK) on the health and utilization of children enrolled in Medicaid using a difference-in-regression- discontinuities design. We find that UPK increases the probability that a child is diagnosed with asthma or with...
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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 … teacher behavior. If anything, teacher incentives may decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools. The paper …
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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 …This chapter analyzes the design of incentive schemes in education while reviewing empirical studies that evaluate …
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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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