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combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … strategy based on the staggered timing of regulations and lawsuits across the United States, we find that a regulation … administrative actions have a much larger impact than targeted criminal enforcement, providing novel evidence that regulations may be …
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Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing...
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peak of their wealth accumulation, they are often the targets of fraud. Our project analyzes a module we developed and … investment fraud, prize/lottery scams, and account misuse, using regression analysis. Relatively few HRS respondents mentioned … any single form of fraud over the prior five years, but nearly 5% reported at least one form of investment fraud, 4 …
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This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring 2002, over 100 Chicago Public Schools elementary classrooms were selected for retesting based on the cheating detection algorithm. Classrooms prospectively identified as likely...
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We develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines information on unexpected test score fluctuations and suspicious patterns of answers for students in a classroom. Using data from the Chicago Public Schools, we estimate that serious cases of teacher or administrator cheating...
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characteristics, and state/year-level anti-fraud enforcement efforts. We show that increased enforcement leads certain types of types …
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In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player situations where the players meet but once. One player - the truster - decides whether to trust, and the other player - the temptee - has a temptation to...
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of the asset to fraud, on the frequency of trade, and on the current and future prices of the asset. In equilibrium, the …
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When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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resorted to electoral fraud, which neither the legislative, executive, or judicial branches checked. The decade of unchecked … electoral fraud led to the support for Juan Peron and subsequently to political and economic instability …
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