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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2009
The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900
Cullen, Mark R. - 2015
Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457552
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Hospital Competition, Managed Care and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions : Evidence From Three States
Escarce, José J. - 2006
This study assessed the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six … and hospital competition, HMO penetration, and hospital and patient characteristics as explanatory variables. Higher … hospital competition was associated with lower mortality in California and New York, but not Wisconsin. In addition, higher HMO …
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Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions
Flory, Jeffrey A. - 2010
different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462111
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The Gender Gap Cracks Under Pressure : A Detailed Look at Male and Female Performance Differences During Competitions
Cotton, Christopher - 2010
first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … design of the competition and the task at hand. Even when the male advantage does exist, it does not persist beyond the …
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Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions : An Application to Merger and Product Variety
Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper presents a new method for estimating discrete games based on bounds of conditional choice probabilities. The method does not require solving the game and is scalable to models with many firms and many discrete decisions. We apply the method to study merger effects on firm entry and...
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Malleability of Alcohol Consumption : Evidence from Migrants
Hinnosaar, Marit; Liu, Elaine M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How malleable is alcohol consumption? Specifically, how much is alcohol consumption driven by the current environment versus individual characteristics? To answer this question, we analyze changes in alcohol purchases when consumers move from one state to another in the United States. We find...
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The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power : Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives
Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case … competition. However, when products are differentiated curbing consumption through market power can be costly. Firms with market …
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Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP
Conlon, Christopher; Gortmaker, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend best practices for BLP estimation in Conlon and...
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An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact
Allcott, Hunt; Montanari, Giovanni; Ozaltun, Bora; Tan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies' social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the welfare loss that would be caused by a firm's exit. To illustrate, we quantify the social impacts of 74 firms in...
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