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Exley, Christine L.; Lehr, Nils H.; Terry, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive US nonprofit data drawn from millions of tax returns, that the public's hopes are disappointed....

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Hospital Ownership Mix Efficiency in the US : An Exploratory Study

Santerre, Rexford E. - 2005

This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. hospital services industry. The test compares the benefits of quality assurance with the costs from the attenuation of property rights that result from an increased presence of nonprofit organizations. The empirical...

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Waivers for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program : Who Would Benefit from Takeup?

Briones, Diego A.; Ruby, Nathaniel; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

For workers employed in the public and non-profit sectors, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program offers the potential for full forgiveness of federal student loans for those with 10-years of full-time work experience. In practice, the benefits of the PSLF program have been illusory...

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Nonprofits and the Scope of Government : Theory and an Application to the Health Sector

Eggleston, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Nonprofits supply many tax-financed services like healthcare and education. Yet nonprofits are absent from the canonical property rights theory of ownership. Extending the government "make or buy" decision to nonprofits and ex post frictions based on contracts as reference points suggests that...

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Nonprofit Sector

Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The nonprofit sector's ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the private sector in a number of ways. We analyze how nonprofits are affected by changes in the minimum wage utilizing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Internal Revenue Service, linked to state...

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Innovation in the U.S. Government

Bruce, Joshua R. - 2020

This paper examines the U.S. government's intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates along four dimensions: technological, organizational, regulatory,...

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State Capacity as an Organizational Problem : Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years

Mastrorocco, Nicola; Teso, Edoardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using a new dataset on the internal organization of the U.S. federal bureaucracy over 1817-1905. First, we show a series of facts, describing how the size of the state, its presence across the...

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Marketing Mutual Funds

Roussanov, Nikolai - 2018

Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and … costly investor search. Our estimates suggest that marketing is nearly as important as performance and fees for determining …

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The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise

Carrera, Mariana - 2018

Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...

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Student Loan Nudges : Experimental Evidence on Borrowing and Educational Attainment

Marx, Benjamin M. - 2017

We estimate the impact of student loan "nudges" on community college students' borrowing and provide the first experimental evidence of the effect of student loans on educational attainment. Nonbinding loan offers listed in students' financial aid award letters, that do not alter students'...

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