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We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the …
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This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new … informally suggested that firms undertake errors in experimental choice (in particular, choosing experiments that involved biased … because of the anticipation of competition between them …
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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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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 …
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welfare gains from a policy intervention. In our framework, the marginal treatment effects and marginal treatment responses … electricity plan choice. Consumers were offered socially efficient dynamic pricing with randomly assigned take-up incentives. We …
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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 literature using novel data and a series of policy interventions across …
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. This policy increased enrollment into 5-star contracts, but without risk selection worsening. Our findings show that this …
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
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attention is the order in which slots are processed. Since the competition for merit slots is influenced directly by the … applicants systematically have lower scores. This policy processes merit slots prior to any slots reserved for tiers. Our main …
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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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