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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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On ESG Investing : Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices
Goldstein, Itay; Kopytov, Alexandr; Shen, Lin; Xiang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing reshapes information aggregation by prices. We develop a rational expectations equilibrium model in which traditional and green investors are informed about financial and ESG risks but have different preferences over them. Because...
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Adoption of CSR and Sustainability Reporting Standards : Economic Analysis and Review
Christensen, Hans B. - 2019
. We also highlight issues related to the implementation and enforcement of CSR reporting standards. Our analysis yields a …
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Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility : Theory and Field Experimental Evidence
Hedblom, Daniel - 2019
We develop theory and a tightly-linked field experiment to explore the supply side implications of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our natural field experiment, in which we created our own firm and hired actual workers, generates a rich data set on worker behavior and responses to both...
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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations
Fan, Haichao - 2019
This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...
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Impact Investing
Barber, Brad M. - 2019
We document that investors derive nonpecuniary utility from investing in dual-objective VC funds, thus sacrificing returns. Impact funds earn 4.7 percentage points (ppts) lower IRRs ex post than traditional VC funds. In random utility/willingness-to-pay (WTP) models investors accept 2.5-3.7 ppts...
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Competition Laws, Norms and Corporate Social Responsibility
Ding, Wenzhi - 2020
Theory offers differing perspectives and predictions about the impact of product market competition on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using firm-level data on CSR from 2002 through 2015 and panel data on competition laws in 48 countries, we discover that intensifying competition induces...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Imperfect Regulatory Oversight : Theory and Evidence from Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne - 2020
This paper develops and tests a model in which 1) purpose-driven firms emerge as an optimal organizational form even for profit-maximizing entrepreneurs; and 2) CSR arises endogenously as a response to imperfect regulatory oversight. Purpose-driven organizations allow entrepreneurs to create...
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