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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance? : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M. - 1999
This study analyzes the impact of major industrial relations variables on productivity within a plant that assembles large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the best of traditional industrial relations with formal...
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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition
Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999
This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The...
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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay
Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the certificate focus on seller inputs such as fast shipping, or include output measures such as consumer ratings? In theory, incorporating output measures makes the certificate more...
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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game
Butera, Luigi - 2020
Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental approach plays an increasingly crucial role in testing...
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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Repenning, Nelson P. - 2010
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers" --delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments--makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism"...
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Quality Disclosure and Certification : Theory and Practice
Dranove, David - 2010
This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address three key theoretical issues: (i) Why don't sellers...
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Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers
Dranove, David - 2002
Health care report cards - public disclosure of patient health outcomes at the level of the individual physician and/or hospital - may address important informational asymmetries in markets for health care, but they may also give doctors and hospitals incentives to decline to treat more...
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