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The Effects of Government Licensing on E-commerce : Evidence from Alibaba
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2020
Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL …
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Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the mid-19th century, the urban milk supply in the United States was regularly skimmed or diluted with water, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across the country hired milk inspectors, who were tasked with collecting and analyzing milk samples...
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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate the causal effects of early-life consumption of...
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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2008
This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...
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Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?
Philipson, Tomas J. - 2007
In the United States, drug safety and efficacy are primarily regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the legal system, which gives manufacturers large incentives to produce safe drugs and provide proper warnings for side effects, since patients can sue manufacturers that provide...
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Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety : Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels
Begosh, Allan - 2006
Comparing the safety of prescription drugs over time is difficult due to the paucity of reliable quantitative measures of drug safety. Both the academic literature and popular press have focused on drug withdrawals as a proxy for breakdowns in the drug safety system. This metric, however, is...
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Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? : A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design
Montazerhodjat, Vahid - 2015
Implicit in the drug-approval process is a trade-off between Type I and Type II error. We explore the application of Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to minimize the expected cost of drug approval, where relative costs are calibrated using U.S. Burden of Disease Study 2010 data. The results for...
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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative
Deacon, Robert T. - 2010
overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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Cooperatives vs. Outside Ownership
Hart, Oliver - 1998
case of perfect competition, an outside owner achieves the first-best; a cooperative typically does not because the rent …'s preferences may not reflect average preferences. Second, in the case where the members of a cooperative have common preference …
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Why are Worker Cooperatives So Rare?
Kremer, Michael - 1997
distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital … function of output. If the median member has less than average ability, the cooperative will vote for a redistributive schedule …, cooperative members will be reluctant to leave, since this entails forfeiting the dividends on their capital contribution. The …
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