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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects...
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little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine … administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the retirement response to actual and perceived financial incentives. We … find that well-informed individuals are five times more responsive to pension incentives than the average individual when …
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By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...
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. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance …
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suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone …
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Although decades of empirical research has demonstrated that criminal behavior responds to incentives, non … incentives. However, scientific research should not be driven by personal beliefs. Whether or not economic conditions matter or …, the original findings of Mocan and Gittings (2003) are robust, providing evidence that people indeed react to incentives …
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unconditional linear performance benchmark and show that this benchmark can be used to better align incentives within the firm. The …
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respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and …
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Security Administration's Disability Insurance program: that of health care incentives under the program. The examination of … health care incentives involves a 2-period, 2-state insurance model under uncertainty which incorporates two general types of …
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This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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