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Are We Testing Those That Need It Most? Analyzing COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes across Income and Race in New York City
Buzaid, James - 2020
New York City has seen a great deal of COVID-19 cases and deaths since the first positive test in March. This paper analyzes ZIP-code level COVID-19 outcomes with 2018 American Community Survey neighborhood data. I find residents of poor ZIP-codes and ZIP-codes with a greater fraction of the...
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality
Bose, Srimoyee - 2015
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Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests : Evidence from the GRE Test
Schlosser, Analia - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low” stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872064
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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test
Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996241
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Physician behavior under prospective payment schemes : evidence from artefactual field and lab experiments
Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; Seebauer, Michael - 2017
Recent experimental studies analyze the behavior of physicians towards patients and nd that physicians care for their own pro t as well as patient bene t. In this paper, we extend the experimental analysis of the physician decision problem by adding a third party representing the health...
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Teacher grade predictions for ethnic minority groups : evidence from England
Burn, Hester; Fumagalli, Laura; Rabe, Birgitta - 2023
We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher predictions to grades received through actual blindly...
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Are Immigrants Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from the Audit Industry
Aobdia, Daniel - 2016
nonavailability of data. We examine these questions using the audit industry as a setting because of availability of client, city, and … office characteristics data at each audit office. This setting also allows us to answer whether immigration can address the … growing human capital constraint in the audit industry. We find evidence of a complementary role of highly skilled immigrants …
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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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