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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

of inquiry in this market setting that are central to the broader digitization research agenda: 1) How will the … digitization of this market influence the distribution of economic activity (geographic distribution of work, income distribution … acquisition, machine-aided recommendations)?; 3) How will the digitization of this market affect social welfare (increased …

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Productivity and Wages : What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past, and What Might Occur in the AI Revolution of the Future?

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn; Hayes, Grant E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S.,...

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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020

We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global "best practices" including comprehensive assessments, detailed school...

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Is Local Public Sector Rent Extraction Higher in Progressive Cities or High Amenity Cities?

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

Public finance theories of the median voter's preferences and local public sector rent extraction posit that liberal cities and high amenity cities will feature a larger, better paid local public sector. Compensating differentials theory predicts that real wages will be lower in beautiful states...

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Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa

Robinson, James Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite the low levels of taxation and public good provision in Africa, I provide evidence that a large proportion of Africans prefer lower taxation and fewer public goods. This cannot be explained by standard arguments about problems of accountability, governance or state capacity. Instead I...

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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model

Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...

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Smiles in Profiles : Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces

Athey, Susan; Karlan, Dean; Palikot, Emil; Yuan, Yuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Online platforms often face challenges being both fair (i.e., non-discriminatory) and efficient (i.e., maximizing revenue). Using computer vision algorithms and observational data from a microlending marketplace, we find that choices made by borrowers creating online profiles impact both of...

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The Private Provision of Public Services : Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid

Agafiev Macambira, Danil; Geruso, Michael; Lollo, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Nearly all prior work on government outsourcing has focused on the contracting firm's incentives. This paper shows how strong incentive contracts may be insufficient to generate spending reductions (or other desired outcomes) in the presence of a binding technological or managerial constraint....

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How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

Brown, Jason - 2011

Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease …

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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

public health clinics. We exploit an exogenous reduction in public health clinic capacity to quantify nurses' trade …

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