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quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in … of equilibrium contract structures with and without gender-based pricing. Eliminating gender-based pricing is generally … to offer a menu of contracts may reduce the amount of redistribution from men to women associated with gender …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...
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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....
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study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted … not only on its effectiveness as a sanitary measure but also on how the costs of the regulation are distributed …
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Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms' investment in highly welfare-improving R&D. The U.S. subsidizes the worldwide pharmaceutical...
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are subject to regulation by local authorities, resulting in both practical and strategic implications for manufacturers …, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …
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This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant …
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We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...
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-benefit analyses of possible reforms to Australian e-cigarette regulation. In aggregate, we estimate that the benefits of allowing but … research on e-cigarette regulation and provides a case-study for the policy implementation in Australia. Our paper is also part …
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We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …
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