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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459674
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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 …. We find: (1) EMR adoption is initially associated with higher costs; (2) At hospitals with access to complementary inputs …
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Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending
Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000
The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938701
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Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission : Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms
Caglio, Cecilia R.; Darst, R. Matthew; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using confidential regulatory firm-bank-loan level data from the U.S., we document four new facts about the credit market. First, private SMEs typically utilize all available bank credit which comprises their entire balance sheet debt, compared to large listed firms who can switch between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510563
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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...
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Achieving Scale Collectively
Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduct a novel survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585412
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Why Did Small Business Fintech Lending Dry Up During March 2020?
Ben-David, Itzhak; Johnson, Mark J.; Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, small business lending through fintech lenders collapsed. We explore the reasons for the market shutdown using detailed data about loan applications, offers, and take-up from a major small business fintech credit platform. We document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629425
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Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID : Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?'
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business …
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