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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry : Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
Cutler, David M. - 2009
Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of … firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may … increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic firms underuse these inputs when entry is constrained. We assess these …
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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Busso, Matias - 2014
randomized the entry of retail firms into 72 local markets in the context of a conditional cash transfer program. Six months …
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The Proper Scope of Government : Theory and an Application to Prisons
Hart, Oliver - 1996
When should a government provide a service inhouse and when should it contract out provision? We develop a model in which the provider can invest in improving the quality of service or reducing cost. If contracts are incomplete, the private provider has a stronger incentive to engage in both...
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A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments : A Mystery-Shopping Approach
Dube, Oeindrila; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the lack of competition, a natural worry is that customer support provided by states for these services is less than adequate. While there are many different measures of how a state...
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If at First You Don't Succeed... : Profits, Prices and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity
Krishna, Kala - 2000
quality plays a critical role in determining when free entry could be consistent with the existence of profits and result in …
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Untangling Searchable and Experiential Quality Responses to Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2013
In this paper, we untangle the searchable and experiential dimensions of quality responses to entry by counterfeiters …
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Some Simple Analytics of School Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
Most empirical analyses of human capital have concentrated solely on the quantity of schooling attained by individuals, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence...
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M. - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
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School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance
Anderson, Michael L. - 2017
Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has long argued that a healthy diet can have a second...
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Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity : Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes
Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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