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Private Precaution and Public Restrictions : What Drives Social Distancing and Industry Foot Traffic in the COVID-19 Era?

Cronin, Christopher J. - 2020

We examine the role of state and local policies to encourage social distancing, including stay at home orders, public school closures, and restrictions on restaurants, entertainment, and large social gatherings. Outcomes come from cell phone records and include foot traffic in six industries...

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The Median Voter and the Median Consumer : Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting

Waldfogel, Joel - 2006

When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and consumed locally, so that provision requires not only a large group favoring the product but a large number nearby. Just as one has an...

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Does Corporate Ownership Matter? Service Provision in the Hospital Industry

Horwitz, Jill R. - 2005

Three types of firms -- nonprofit, for-profit, and government -- own U.S. hospitals, yet we do not know whether ownership results in the specialization of medical service provision. This study of over 30 medical services in urban, general hospitals (1988-2000) shows that ownership types...

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Cost Implications of Hospital Unionization : A Behavioral Analysis

Salkever, David S. - 1982

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent and projected growth of hospital unions is of some...

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Does Seeing the Doctor More Often Keep You Out of the Hospital?

Kaestner, Robert - 2012

By exploiting a unique health insurance benefit design, we provide novel evidence on the causal association between outpatient and inpatient care. Our results indicate that greater outpatient spending was associated with more hospital admissions: a $100 increase in outpatient spending was...

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Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?

David, Guy - 2011

Cross-subsidies are often considered the principal mechanism through which hospitals provide unprofitable care. Yet, hospitals' reliance on and extent of cross-subsidization are difficult to establish. We exploit entry by cardiac specialty hospitals as an exogenous shock to incumbent hospitals'...

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A Structural Approach to Market Definition With an Application to the Hospital Industry

Gaynor, Martin - 2011

Market definition is essential to merger analysis. Because no standard approach to market definition exists, opposing parties in antitrust cases often disagree about the extent of the market. These differences have been particularly relevant in the hospital industry, where the courts have denied...

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The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market : The Case of Airbnb

Farronato, Chiara - 2018

We study the effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers - peer hosts and hotels - who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model using data from major US cities and quantify...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2008

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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