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A Synthetic Model of Disruption and Experimentation

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new technological opportunities. It does so in the context of the failure of successful firms (or disruption) where the literature has informally suggested that firms undertake errors in...

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An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators

Bloom, David E. - 1986

This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...

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Education for All? A Nationwide Audit Study of School Choice

Bergman, Peter - 2018

School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked...

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Selection on Welfare Gains : Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice

Ito, Koichiro; Ida, Takanori; Tanaka, Makoto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

simulations quantify the optimal take-up incentives that exploit observed and unobserved heterogeneity in selection and welfare …

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Improving the Quality of Choices in Health Insurance Markets

Abaluck, Jason - 2016

Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets - and little evidence on solutions to any choice inconsistencies. This paper addresses these omissions from the...

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Insurers' Response to Selection Risk : Evidence from Medicare Enrollment Reforms

Decarolis, Francesco - 2016

Evidence on insurers' behavior in environments with both risk selection and market power is largely missing. We fill … changes in selection. Our strategy exploits a 2012 reform allowing Medicare enrollees to switch to 5-star contracts at anytime …. This policy increased enrollment into 5-star contracts, but without risk selection worsening. Our findings show that this …

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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio J. - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...

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Explicit vs. Statistical Preferential Treatment in Affirmative Action : Theory and Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools

Dur, Umut - 2016

Affirmative action schemes must confront the tension between admitting the highest scoring applicants and ensuring diversity. In Chicago's affirmative action system for exam schools, applicants are divided into one of four socioeconomic tiers based on the characteristics of their neighborhood....

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Can Universal Screening Increase the Representation of Low Income and Minority Students in Gifted Education?

Card, David - 2015

Low income and minority students are under-represented in gifted education programs. One explanation for this pattern is that the usual process for identifying gifted students, through parent and teacher referrals, systematically misses many potentially qualified disadvantaged students. We use...

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Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection

Kirkebøen, Lars - 2014

correcting for selection bias and keeping the next-best alternatives as measured at the time of application fixed. We find that …

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