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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality
Gujral, Kritee - 2019
in prior work by using a reconciled list of California's hospital closures and by studying differential impacts of rural … California's rural closures. Results suggest that when treatment groups are not differentiated by hospital rurality, closures … appear to have no measurable impact. However, estimating differential impacts of rural and urban closures shows that rural …
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …
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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation
Hausman, Jerry - 1999
This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are taxed by federal, state, and local governments at relatively high rates in the range of 14%-25%. The paper concludes such taxes are a much greater drain on the economy than...
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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
emergency cash transfer program, which used these algorithms to determine eligibility for a rural assistance program that …
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Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019
Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult task. We use the universe of de-identified cellphone usage records from more than one million users in a Chinese...
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Experienced Segregation
Athey, Susan - 2020
We introduce a novel measure of segregation, experienced isolation, that captures individuals' exposure to diverse others in the places they visit over the course of their days. Using Global Positioning System (GPS) data collected from smartphones, we measure experienced isolation by race. We...
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Geographic Mobility in America : Evidence from Cell Phone Data
Chen, M. Keith - 2020
Traveling beyond the immediate surroundings of one's residence can lead to greater exposure to new ideas and information, jobs, and greater transmission of disease. In this paper, we document the geographic mobility of individuals in the U.S., and how this mobility varies across U.S. cities,...
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Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture
Gupta, Apoorv - 2020
exploits the expansion of the mobile phone network in previously uncovered areas of rural India coupled with the availability …
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Mobile Money : The Economics of M-PESA
Jack, William - 2011
Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions using cell phone technology. In this paper, we report initial results of two rounds of a large survey of households in Kenya, the country that has seen perhaps the most rapid and widespread growth of a mobile money...
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Evaluating Wireless Carrier Consolidation Using Semiparametric Demand Estimation
Bajari, Patrick - 2006
The US mobile phone service industry has dramatically consolidated over the last two decades. One justification for consolidation is that merged firms can provide consumers with larger coverage areas at lower costs. We estimate the willingness to pay for national coverage to evaluate this...
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